SmugMug, a premium online photo and video sharing business, has millions of users storing billions of photos and videos. SmugMug uses Amazon CloudSearch to improve the search experience for its users—making search fast and incorporating rich search features such as faceting, free text and fielded searches, and customized relevance ranking.
By offloading its search infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, SmugMug can focus valuable developer resources on its core competency: improving and building new photo sharing features for its customers.