Author: Chris Gillespie

Learn how to integrate a Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey for caching. This walkthrough covers adding caching to a serverless cache, plus the advantages of Spring Data Valkey over Spring Data Redis: native AWS IAM authentication, Availability Zone affinity, and OpenTelemetry observability.

In this post, we show you how to save costs on Amazon ElastiCache by upgrading your cluster engine to ElastiCache for Valkey. If you’re currently using ElastiCache for Redis OSS, you can achieve up to 60% cost savings by upgrading to Valkey.

In this post, we explore the basics of integrating a Spring Boot application with ElastiCache to enable caching. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS-compatible service that delivers real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications with 99.99% SLA availability. ElastiCache speeds up application performance, scaling to millions of operations per second with microsecond response time.

Amazon Q Developer, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, can help accelerate the development of applications on AWS. In this post, we create a DynamoDB table using IaC then perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on the table using Python and Boto3 (with additional observations for JavaScript and Java at the end of the post). We demonstrate how Amazon Q can improve your speed of development for these tasks.

Developers want to perform bulk updates to modify items in their Amazon DynamoDB tables. Reasons for performing bulk updates can include: Adding or updating attributes – backfilling a Time to Live (TTL) value or populating an attribute to support a new access pattern or global secondary index (GSI). For example, enriching existing data with new […]

When developing an application with Amazon DynamoDB, sometimes you want new items inserted into a table to have an ever-increasing sequence number. Some databases call this auto-increment and automatically populate the value on insert. Example use-cases could be giving a customer order or a support ticket a numeric identifier. DynamoDB doesn’t provide auto-increment as an […]