Azure Search - Get Ready for some action
Few Days Ago, another new service was made available on Azure , categorically called as "Search as a Service". This enables a PAAS feature in azure to enable organizations to use enrich search capability . This allows users to manage Full text search and build search enabled applications.
It is integrated with Azure portal and available for provisioning under Data Storage, Cache and Back Up section. Also, it will be available from quick menu as shown below.
The Azure Search works on its API and should be used by developers to utilize the search service to create indexes, upload files for the indexing and finally make it available as a search result. Azure Search will take out the burden of setting up search service infrastructure and repetitive labor and cost of managing these services. Also, It is really easy to scale out this as shown below.
As of now, Its the developer community who can leverage on this and can build solutions which are really dependent of high performing search service. I found a really nice article explaining creation of Indexes and finally searching it from Azure Search.
Please refer this
In Nut Shell,
Azure Search is a indexing service which will allow a provisioned service which is capable to delivering high query per second(50-60) and can be scalable further if further needed.