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Safely reduce the cost of your unused Amazon DynamoDB tables using on-demand mode

Imagine that you have thousands of Amazon DynamoDB tables for development and production environments. You want to decommission the tables that nobody uses, because that’s what the AWS Well-Architected Framework recommends for cost saving. How can you find unused tables quickly? Moreover, how to ensure you don’t incur any application availability impact after decommissioning the […]

Amazon DynamoDB session videos from AWS re:Invent 2020

This blog post includes links to the videos from the keynotes and Amazon DynamoDB sessions presented during AWS re:Invent 2020. This year’s conference was free and completely virtual, and featured 11 sessions about DynamoDB: eight at the advanced level and three at the expert level. To give you some idea of where to start, Rick Houlihan’s […]

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How CyberZ performs read-light operations to display followees’ activities in the timeline using Amazon DynamoDB

About CyberZ CyberZ, Inc. is an advertising agency that was founded in 2009 and specializes in smartphone marketing. At CyberZ, we have developed a wide range of marketing businesses, including advertising on the smartphone and measuring its effectiveness, creation of ads for public transport, and creation of web commercials. We also have branches outside Japan—in […]

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How Kount migrated a critical workload to Amazon DynamoDB from Cassandra

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 […]

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Cross-account replication with Amazon DynamoDB

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 […]

Implementing version control using Amazon DynamoDB

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 […]

Accelerating Nylas’s feature development with AWS Data Lab

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 […]