Category: Amazon DynamoDB

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Database migrations can be challenging projects. With a mix of unique business requirements, specific data models and architectures, and technical risk, these projects often seem daunting. To help tackle these challenges, a team can apply planning, design, and testing methods to help navigate their unique project needs. In this post, Edin Zulich (AWS Principal NoSQL […]

July 2024, this post has been reviewed for accuracy. Hundreds of thousands of customers use Amazon DynamoDB for mission-critical workloads. In some situations, you may want to migrate your DynamoDB tables into a different AWS account, for example, in the eventuality of a company being acquired by another company. Another use case is adopting a […]

Some applications require you to record changes to data over time, and you can identify these changes by a timestamp or number so it’s possible to retrieve specific versions later. In addition, you should be able to easily retrieve the most recent version and the design of the application to maintain data integrity as versions […]

2020 has been another busy year for Amazon DynamoDB. We released new and updated features that focus on making your experience with the service better than ever in terms of reliability, encryption, speed, scale, and flexibility. The following 2020 releases are organized alphabetically by category and then by dated releases, with the most recent release […]

In this post, I describe a simple way to transfer data from ElastiCache for Redis clusters to other AWS database services using AWS Lambda functions.

This is a guest post by David Ting, VP of Engineering at Nylas. In their own words, Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of universal communications APIs that allow developers to quickly connect their applications to every email, calendar, or contacts provider in the world. Over 26,000 developers around the globe use the Nylas […]

This is a guest post from Ken Wu, Chief Technology Officer, and Steve Gordon, Director of Engineering at caresyntax. caresyntax provides the needed tools to make surgery smarter and safer. Our solutions use IoT, analytics, and AI technologies to automate clinical and operational decision support for surgical teams and support all outcome contributors. We help […]

If you have complex data types such as maps and lists in your Amazon DynamoDB data, refer to Part 2 of this series. Bulk updates to a database can be disruptive and potentially cause downtime, performance impacts to your business processes, or overprovisioning of compute and storage resources. When performing bulk updates, you want to […]

When using a NoSQL database such as Amazon DynamoDB, I tend to make different optimization choices than what I am accustomed to with relational databases. At the beginning, it was not easy for me, because my relational database experience was telling me to do things differently. To help with that, AWS released NoSQL Workbench for […]