We are pleased to announce that the functionality previously offered on the Alexa Web Search Platform is now available at greater scale and lower cost via Amazon Web Services. Developers can access and process the documents in Alexa's web archive using:

• The Alexa Web Search service to locate documents of interest,
• Compute nodes from Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to retrieve and process those documents,
• And the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store their output.

These services offered by Amazon Web Services help make the Alexa Web Search service highly scalable, reliable, and cost-effective. The Alexa Web Search service replaces the Alexa Web Search Platform service.

The press release is here: New Version of Alexa Web Search Service Gives Any Developer Tools to Innovate in Search at Web Scale. The following whitepaper describes how to use these services to process Alexa's archived crawl: Processing Web Documents using Alexa Web Search, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2

Thank you for using Alexa Web Services.

- Alexa Engineering