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Category: Amazon DynamoDB

Use vertical partitioning to scale data efficiently in Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed and serverless NoSQL cloud database service that provides consistent performance at any scale, with zero-downtime for maintenance or scaling. While there is a maximum item size of 400 KB (inclusive of both attribute names and values), you can use a technique called vertical partitioning to scale your data beyond […]

Overview of building resilient applications with Amazon DynamoDB global tables

AWS Senior Principal Solutions Architect Randy DeFauw has written a four-part series about how to use Amazon DynamoDB global tables as part of your strategy to build resilient, multi-Region applications that have the lowest possible recovery time objective and recovery point objective. This post summarizes each post in the series and provides a single link […]

Why Reltio chose an all-in migration to Amazon DynamoDB

“Reltio’s ability to drive innovation on behalf of their customers exemplifies how cloud-native businesses can leverage AWS to deliver differentiated solutions. Through collaboration in both technology development and go-to-market efforts, Reltio’s partnership with AWS continues to strengthen their position as an industry-leading master data management solution.” -Amine Chigani, AWS Global Head of Enterprise Technologists Amazon […]

Amazon DynamoDB schema from the prism of SQL

A database is one of the main components of software system design. RDBMS has been a cornerstone of application development for decades, making SQL the language of choice for most developers. As application requirements for scalability and availability are changing rapidly, Amazon DynamoDB—a serverless, NoSQL key-value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale […]

How OLX optimized their Amazon DynamoDB costs by scaling their query patterns

This is a guest post by Miguel Alpendre (Engineering Manager at OLX Group), Rodrigo Lopes (Senior Software Engineer at OLX Group), and Carlos Tarilonte (Senior Developer at OLX Group) in partnership with Luís Rodrigues Soares (Solution Architect at AWS). At OLX, we operate the world’s fastest-growing network of trading platforms. Serving 300 million people every […]

Build resilient applications with Amazon DynamoDB global tables: Part 4

In the first three posts of this four-part series, you learned how the choice of zonal or Regional services impacts availability, and some important characteristics of Amazon DynamoDB when used in a multi-Region context with global tables. Part 1 also covered the motivation for using multiple Regions. Part 2 discussed some important characteristics of DynamoDB. […]

Build resilient applications with Amazon DynamoDB global tables: Part 3

In the first two posts of this four-part series, you learned how the choice of zonal or Regional services impacts availability and some important characteristics of Amazon DynamoDB when used in a multi-Region context with global tables. Part 1 also covered the motivation for using multiple AWS Regions. Part 2 discussed some important characteristics of […]

Build resilient applications with Amazon DynamoDB global tables: Part 2

In the first post of this series, you learned about the differences between zonal, Regional, and global services, and how they affect theoretical application availability. In this post, you’ll learn more about some important Amazon DynamoDB characteristics and how they impact multi-Region design. Properties of DynamoDB tables in a single Region DynamoDB is a NoSQL […]

Build resilient applications with Amazon DynamoDB global tables: Part 1

Customers that need to build resilient applications with the lowest possible recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) want to make the best use of AWS global infrastructure to support their resilience goals. Building an application using multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region can provide high levels of availability, but you […]