Category: Amazon DynamoDB

Recover from accidental changes to your Amazon DynamoDB tables without a full table restore. This post shows how to use the Bulk Executor revert-export command with an incremental export to Amazon S3 to undo unwanted writes, target only a subset of changes with a transform, or fix specific items along the way.

Many applications that use Amazon DynamoDB for operational data also need vector similarity search, which until now meant running a separate vector database. DynamoDB now supports native vector search. In this post, we build a semantic search application over research paper abstracts using Amazon Bedrock embeddings, and cover how vector search is metered.

When using Amazon DynamoDB, you sometimes want to perform bulk operations against all the items in a table, which has historically required custom coding. The open source Bulk Executor for DynamoDB simplifies bulk tasks like these. You can use this feature to invoke commands like count, find, delete, or update. No coding is required, even when running at large scale. In this post, we explore the built-in capabilities of Bulk Executor and show you how to install and use it for common bulk operations against your DynamoDB tables.

In this post, we show how Amazon’s Finance Technology (FinTech) team uses Amazon Neptune to model complex corporate treasury structures as a property graph. These structures include the legal entity relationships, intercompany agreements, and bank account associations that govern payment routing and cash management.

Managing massive data volumes at scale presents significant operational challenges. At Similarweb we faced these challenges with Apache HBase and found a solution in Amazon DynamoDB. Similarweb is a digital intelligence platform that provides AI-powered insights into website traffic, app usage, and market trends to help businesses benchmark competitors and optimize growth strategies. We faced growing scalability and operational complexity issues with our existing Apache HBase infrastructure, which prompted us to explore more flexible and efficient alternatives. This post walks you through our journey migrating our data storage from Apache HBase to DynamoDB. We discuss the technical challenges, migration approach, data modeling strategies, cost optimization techniques, and key benefits achieved along the way.

In this post, we show you how to use AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to validate that your application handles regional disruptions the way you expect, by running controlled experiments against your DynamoDB global tables. We cover both multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) and multi-Region eventually consistent (MREC) global tables, because AWS FIS works differently with each.

In this post we cover the two primary failover strategies for DynamoDB global tables, the tradeoffs between them, and the operational considerations that you must be aware of during and after a failover.

This is Part 1 of a series on best practices for DynamoDB global tables. In this post, we focus on preparation: understanding how replication works, what your resilience posture looks like, and the operational groundwork that separates a controlled failover from a scramble.

Today, we are announcing ExtendDB, an open source Amazon DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends, released under the Apache 2.0 License. ExtendDB implements the DynamoDB wire protocol and ships with PostgreSQL as its first backend, so any AWS SDK, CLI, or tool that works with DynamoDB works with ExtendDB unchanged. In this post, we introduce ExtendDB, walk through getting started, and explain the architecture. This is a v0.1 release for development, testing, and experimentation.

In this post, we show you how to use the new cdk orphan command to safely migrate a DynamoDB table from the Table construct to TableV2 with zero downtime. Your data stays intact, streams keep flowing, and your application remains available throughout the process.