Powerful full-text search, data visualization, and analytics on an Apache 2.0 licensed engine — with no vendor lock-in and no hidden fees, deployed and tuned by engineers who run it in production.
Apache 2.0 licensed · Deployed & supported by AWDS
Search on AWDS.io isn't a demo — it's a production system running on OpenSearch. One query returns results across products, pages, and blog posts at once. Fuzzy matching, autocomplete, highlighting — all out of the box.
products + pages + blog
response time
Instant search across products, categories, descriptions, and attributes. Typos, synonyms, transliteration — customers find the product on the first try.
Collect, store, and analyze logs in real time. OpenSearch Dashboards for visualization — a free alternative to Kibana with no licensing limits.
Real-time data processing and analysis. Ideal for business intelligence, IoT data, and personalized recommendation systems.
A production search platform is more than one engine. We combine OpenSearch with battle-tested ingest, visualization, and orchestration tooling — selected for measurable speed, reliability, and zero licensing fees across every deployment we run.
Top Pick
Our primary search engine. We build catalogs with 15,000+ SKUs, log analytics clusters ingesting millions of events per hour, and relevance-tuned product search with synonyms and typo tolerance. OpenSearch handles workloads lighter engines cannot — aggregations over billions of documents, index lifecycle policies, and cross-cluster replication out of the box.
Visual analytics for business and engineering teams alike. We build role-scoped dashboards, alerting rules, and anomaly detection views — delivering answers in seconds, not SQL tickets.
Our go-to for moving data in: log shipping, ETL transforms, and change-data-capture from your databases. Structured pipelines make every document searchable within seconds of creation.
Semantic and hybrid search powered by embeddings. We use OpenSearch's native k-NN engine where meaning matters — recommendations, similar-item search, and AI-assisted discovery.
2x Faster Deploys
Every cluster ships in containers with automated CI/CD pipelines, rolling upgrades, and infrastructure-as-code. Snapshots, index lifecycle management, and auto-scaling mean zero-downtime maintenance and clusters that grow with your data — no midnight server fires.
Concrete commitments we honour on every single project.
The price in the contract never grows mid-project
We fix defects for a year after launch
Full code and files handed over — zero lock-in
Revisions within the agreed scope at no extra cost
We sign an NDA — your data stays protected
Post-launch technical support included
Pay per delivered stage — a stage not delivered as agreed is refunded
Elasticsearch moved to SSPL in 2021 — restrictions for SaaS. OpenSearch stays fully open.
RBAC, encryption, auditing, SAML — all included. In Elasticsearch, this starts at $600/mo for X-Pack.
Open code, open governance. A community of 1,000+ contributors. No one is changing the license tomorrow.
Neural search, anomaly detection, vector DB — built in. Elasticsearch requires a paid subscription for ML features.
We work with both engines. Here's an objective comparison to help you decide.
Honest answers about how we work, what it costs, and what you can expect
We also work with Elasticsearch — Elasticsearch solutions →
If search can't find a product because of a typo, the customer leaves. OpenSearch solves this with fuzzy matching, synonyms, and autocomplete.
Users who find a product through search convert 35% better than those browsing the catalog.
Security, dashboards, ML — free. You pay only for infrastructure and implementation expertise.
Automatic redundancy and fault tolerance. A single server failure doesn't mean data loss or downtime.
We analyze your data volume, query types, and current architecture. We design the optimal structure for storing and processing data. Already on Elasticsearch? We plan a seamless migration.
We tune the search system for your language and catalog. We optimize result accuracy so users find what they need on the first try, not the second.
We set up The engine Dashboards to visualize your metrics. Alerts for performance degradation, growing queues, or data anomalies — you learn about issues before your users do.
24/7 monitoring, zero-downtime updates, on-demand scaling. As load grows, the system automatically distributes resources.
The search stack delivers the power of Elasticsearch without the licensing risk. Free security, dashboards, and ML. We'll implement and configure it in 2-4 weeks.
no licensing risk
turnkey implementation
conversion lift from search
Real feedback from the companies we have worked with
5.0
Quality
4.8
Communication
4.8
Timeliness
5.0
Value
The licensing renewal quote is what pushed us — same features, suddenly enterprise-priced. AWDS moved our cluster to OpenSearch over two maintenance windows; the API compatibility claim held, none of our integration code changed. One anniversary later, search is as fast as ever — and that renewal line item simply doesn't exist.
Cornelius Sillitoe
CTO, Keelson Marine Parts
The decider for me: the security layer comes included, not gated behind a paid tier. Access control, encryption, audit logs — all running on an engine with no licence bill attached. Our accountant asked twice where the search costs went.
Petronella Norrington
Founder, Bryony Home Textiles
We route thousands of shipments a day and our logs were scattered across four different systems. Now everything streams into one cluster, and the dashboards give my team the visibility we were once quoted five figures a year for. Alerts fire before customers notice anything.
Phineas Tresswell
IT Manager, Anchorline Logistics
Neural search understands what shoppers mean, not just what they type. 'Rustic table lamp' finds the right pieces even when our titles say otherwise.
Emmeline Marchwood
Head of Digital, Flintworks Studio
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