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Tag: Amazon DynamoDB
Genome Engineering Applications: Early Adopters of the Cloud
Our friends at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia sent along the guest post below to tell us about how AWS powers an important new genome editing technique. — Jeff Recent developments in molecular engineering technology now enables the accurate editing of genomes. The new technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, can be […]
How Tokyu Hands Architected a Cost-Effective Shopping System with Amazon DynamoDB
Update (April 2024) – This blog post has been removed at the request of the customer — Jeff;
New CloudWatch Events – Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources
When you pull the curtain back on an AWS-powered application, you’ll find that a lot is happening behind the scenes. EC2 instances are launched and terminated by Auto Scaling policies in response to changes in system load, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon SNS topics and Amazon SQS queues are created and deleted, and attributes of existing […]
New – Store and Process Graph Data using the DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan
Graph databases elegantly and efficiently represent entities (generally known as vertices or nodes) and relationships (edges) that connect them. Here’s a very simple example of a graph: Bill and Candace have a daughter named Janet, and she has a son named Bob. This makes Candace Bob’s grandmother, and Bill his grandfather. Once a graph has […]
New Logstash Plugin – Search DynamoDB Content using Elasticsearch
When I take a look at our recent service releases and combine it with some of the AWS-related repos on GitHub, an interesting trend becomes apparent. It seems to me that connecting AWS services to each other and to third party tools is becoming more and more common. For example, in a recent post, I […]
DynamoDB Update – Triggers (Streams + Lambda) + Cross-Region Replication App
I’ve got some really good news for Amazon DynamoDB users! First, the DynamoDB Streams feature is now available and you can start using it today. As you will see from this blog post, it is now very easy to use AWS Lambda to process the change records from a stream. Second, we are making it […]
DynamoDB Update – Improved JSON Editing & Key Condition Expressions
Thousands of customers use Amazon DynamoDB to build popular applications for Gaming (Battle Camp), Mobile (The Simpsons Tapped Out), Ad-tech (AdRoll), Internet-of-Things (Earth Networks) and Modern Web applications (SmugMug). We have made some improvements to DynamoDB in order to make it more powerful and easier to use. Here’s what’s new: You can now add, edit, […]
Simplify Your DynamoDB Queries Using Secondary Index Scans
Let’s say you are building a data-intensive application. It might be for gaming, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) or simply a modern web application. You are customer-driven and you derive satisfaction from being able to rapidly respond to the ever-changing needs of your users. Their requirements are quickly evolving and the application needs to evolve […]