Hello, Have you ever wanted to test your app against a dev version of your production CloudSearch? Is management saying budget constraints won't allow this? Then Nozama CloudSearch is for you. It is a light weight implementation of Amazon's CloudSearch service you can run locally. Its has additional REST API features which allow inspection of data in a way not available via Amazon CloudSearch. Nozama is also a way to migrate from Amazon CloudSearch to ElasticSearch. Version 1.1.2 This now supports text searching and uses ElasticSearch as it backend. Facets are not yet supported. I use MongoDB to store the results of batch upload runs. This will change in future as I believe I can use ElasticSearch for this too. It is BSD licensed and available now from pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ nozama-cloudsearch-service: easy_install nozama-cloudsearch-service Contributions are always welcome. Just fork me on github: * https://github.com/oisinmulvihill/nozama-cloudsearch It also has documentation which it self hosts or can be seen on readthedocs: * https://nozama-cloudsearch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html All the best, Oisin