Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics

Amazon Cloudsearch can be suitable for some queries that require fast data. For example, in our case, we used CloudSearch, in a tool called Global Search. That will search everything like names, emails and a lot of stuff in our application. If you want fast data and you have a simple query, Global Search isn't appropriate for you.

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Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is well suited for network monitoring and starts off as learning how your day to day traffic flows amongst systems and assets. From there it can then pinpoint specific alerts that you have enabled to be monitored on your network. This gives us insight on any issues that may come up and how we can fix them. It also allows us to see what systems are consuming the most bandwidth and such from a big picture point of view.

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• Really fast queries
• Good Reporting
• Reduce the cost of the server

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• Improve security and productivity
• Detect advanced threats and indicators of compromise

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• Can take some time to implement
• The initial configuration can be tricky
• Takes some time to update the values

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• More integrations with other Cisco tools or 3rd party vendors
• Add description of NetFlow probe, so you know which device it's configured on without logging into the actual switch
• Updated UI

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Very simple and easy to learn UI

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Site loads smoothly without issues. Reports pull quickly as well. Overall no issues with this products performance for us

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Quick and easy support. Response time to support tickets have always been very quick and level of knowledge has always been excellent.

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I didn't investigate the best alternatives to CloudSearch, but did help with implementing this feature in our application. But from what i tested and used - Cloudsearch is very fast to get queries. Some negative points can be the time to implement this and some configurations that can be tricky.

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If anything Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics only compliments other Cisco tools. We run a Cisco security stack and each one of those products only enhance and better the other product. Ultimately enhancing and protecting your network at its fullest capabilities. Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics doesn't only stack up, but adds another layer of visibility to help your company out.

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Only have this deployed to one site, so scalability is good.

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• Positive Point - Reduced the server load
• Negative point - Not suitable for all queries
• Negative Point - Time to implement this feature

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• Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics has helped us mitigate network security issues
• Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics has provided us with detailed reporting on what are needs are in regards to network stability
• UI is stale and could use an update

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