Category: Amazon DynamoDB

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Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Customers increasingly use workload isolation strategies to minimize security threats and to ease the complexity of compliance demands for their DynamoDB-backed workloads. Implementing workload isolation strategies often requires cross-account and cross-Region access to DynamoDB resources using IAM identity-based policies, which […]

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 […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a multi-Region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. Customers can access DynamoDB from their VPC or from workloads that run on-premises with gateway endpoints. For on-premises private network connectivity […]

Amazon DynamoDB offers high scalability and performance for applications with varying workloads. While DynamoDB excels at efficiently distributing data across multiple partitions, it inherently follows a specific sorting order based on the schema selected. In this post, we show two example data models, one designed to store e-commerce order information and one to store game […]

With the evolution of microservice-based architectures, organizations are increasingly adopting purpose-built databases. Occasionally, businesses need guidance on which cloud service and solutions are best for them, as well as a plan for helping with the migration. When performing heterogeneous database migrations, you might encounter problems with attribute patterns on NoSQL compared to traditional relational database […]

This post is co-authored with Neha Gupta & Kanica Mandhania from Zomato. Zomato, an India-based restaurant aggregator, food delivery, and dining-out company, operates in over 1,000 cities and lists more than 350,000 restaurants. Since its inception in 2008, Zomato has grown tremendously, both in scope and scale—and has emerged as the leading market player in […]

It’s November, which means that AWS re:Invent 2023 is just around the corner! We’ve summarized a list of re:Invent sessions that include Amazon DynamoDB. We encourage readers who are interested in learning more about DynamoDB to bookmark this list to simplify how you schedule your conference week in Las Vegas this year. Keynotes and leadership […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. DynamoDB recently launched a new feature: Incremental export to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use incremental exports to update your downstream systems regularly using only the changed data. You no longer need to do a […]

Time to Live (TTL) is a mechanism that helps determine the longevity or lifespan of data, files, infrastructure, or even entire environments. When working with data, it could represent the amount of time a leaderboard expires in memory before being reloaded from storage, or how long a file must be kept for regulatory or compliance […]