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Re:Show HN: We're building a search engine for GCP by kevincox on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:04AM (#32789888)
Diesnt the GCP search bar already search resources? It does seem like there are a few data fields that aren't indexed that I would like to be but it handles the cases I see in the demo.

What this is really needed for is AWS because they don't really have a cross-region search.

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Re:Show HN: We're building a search engine for GCP by 1776smithadam on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:04PM (#32791829)
> It does seem like there are a few data fields that aren't indexed that I would like to be but it handles the cases I see in the demo.

For Compute VMs, yes.

Indexing is quite sparse outside of Compute. For example, App Engine is supposed to be an important product but substring searching doesn't work.

> What this is really needed for is AWS because they don't really have a cross-region search.

We're working on it :)

For the AWS case, this might be of interest to you: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/06/support-c...

They've just begun to do global search for VMs, but obviously that addresses just one need.

Cloud providers have been sitting on this problem for years without taking action, so we're just impatient.

We also do something they don't / won't: cross-cloud search.

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Re:Show HN: We're building a search engine for GCP by kevincox on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:10PM (#32791879)
That link is about ElasticSearch, not searching for AWS resources. It doesn't seem related at all.
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Re:Show HN: We're building a search engine for GCP by 1776smithadam on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:18PM (#32791962)
Sorry, I intended to send this:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Fi...

The point is that pockets of AWS are recognizing a need for global resource search.

But we are totally taking note of your request for cross-region search :) It's valuable feedback to us and why we're posting here.

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