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Joseph Idziorek

Author: Joseph Idziorek

Amazon DynamoDB re:Invent 2022 recap

Learn how customers like Intuit, Trustpilot, Hulu, Fidelity and Reltio are building serverless, event-driven, and scalable applications on DynamoDB. For the Amazon DynamoDB team, the 2022 AWS re:Invent was once again an incredible experience to connect and reconnect with our customers. Throughout the week, we interacted with dozens of customers to learn what is top-of-mind for […]

Introducing transactions in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

With the launch of MongoDB 4.0 compatibility, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports performing transactions across multiple documents, statements, collections, and databases. Transactions simplify application development by enabling you to perform atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID) operations across one or more documents within an Amazon DocumentDB cluster. Common use cases for transactions include financial processes, fulfilling and managing orders, and building multi-player games. In this post, I show you how to use transactions for common uses cases.

Using cost allocation tags with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As […]

Backing up data with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6 or 4.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document database, […]

Optimizing for cost with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

This blog post was last reviewed and updated February, 2022. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB […]

12 things you should know about Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

This blog post was last reviewed and updated February, 2022. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6 or 4.0 or 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon […]

Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility); Part 2 – using AWS Cloud9

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As […]

Getting started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility); Part 1 – using Amazon EC2

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As […]

Introducing role-based access control for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB 3.6 or 4.0 or 5.0 workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools as you do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about the underlying […]