After looking through multiple options including AWS OpenSearch Serverless, which is potentially complicated has a minimum cost of ~$106/month (as of July 2nd, 2023, configured with t2.small.search and minimum storage) as well as other 3rd party managed services, we concluded that the only free-ish possibility was both simpler and potentially free to cheap for limited use was FlexSearch enabled with Lambda and Persistent EFS
Overview
After looking through multiple options including AWS OpenSearch Serverless, which is potentially complicated has a minimum cost of ~$106/month (as of July 2nd, 2023, configured with t2.small.search and minimum storage) as well as other 3rd party managed services, we concluded that the only free-ish possibility was both simpler and potentially free to cheap for limited use was FlexSearch enabled with Lambda and Persistent EFS
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