We know the difference between syntactic and semantic search.

• Syntactic search is keyword based.
  Searching for Backend Engineer returns results like backend engineer or back-end engineer.

• Semantic search is meaning based.
  The same query can also return platform engineer, api developer, etc.

This difference exists because semantic search does not operate on raw text. Instead, both queries and documents are converted into vector embeddings — numerical representations that capture semantic meaning.

Setting up Google Workspace is different from setting up a personal Gmail account. Your domain is likely registered with a provider like GoDaddy or Namecheap, and email traffic must be routed to Google’s servers.

Example scenario:

• Domain abc.ai registered with GoDaddy
• Cloudflare as DNS provider (optional but recommended for easier setup)
• Goal: Create Google Workspace emails like pavan@abc.ai

Setup Steps

1. Configure DNS Provider (Optional - Cloudflare)

If using Cloudflare, update nameservers on GoDaddy domain settings to point to Cloudflare nameservers (typically elias.ns.cloudflare.com and megan.ns.cloudflare.com).

After reducing the RDS size, I was eager to watch the reduction in monthly bill. Earlier, RDS was costing around $11/day and now it should have cost me $3/day. But after few days of monitoring, it did not budge below $7/day. On splitting the cost by usage type, some storage cost had increased for RDS. On inspecting, I found that this was due to the snapshots that I had created before deleting the previous RDS instance. AWS provides free storage only upto the size of RDS (200GB in my case). But the previous snapshots were of 2TB. Hence, they were beyond free storage and were costing around $4/day. On deleting these snapshots, the RDS bill had come down to the expected value of $3/day.