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Category: Events

Build scalable, event-driven architectures with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda

By combining DynamoDB streams with Lambda, you can build responsive, scalable, and cost-effective systems that automatically react to data changes in real time. In this post, we explore best practices for architecting event-driven systems using DynamoDB and Lambda. DynamoDB provides two options for capturing data changes (CDC): DynamoDB streams and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). In this post, we focus exclusively on DynamoDB streams.

Know before you go: Amazon DynamoDB sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023

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 Managed Blockchain sessions and workshops from AWS re:Invent 2022

Engaging with the customers at AWS re:Invent is always a great opportunity for us to learn more about their use cases, get their feedback on our services, and present new features and capabilities. The Amazon Managed Blockchain team conducted a series of presentations and workshops that focused on how customers are using blockchain technology and […]

Amazon DynamoDB re:Invent 2022 recap

Learn how customers like Intuit, Trustpilot, Hulu, Fidelity and Reltio are building serverless, event-driven, and scalable applications on DynamoDB. For the Amazon DynamoDB team, the 2022 AWS re:Invent was once again an incredible experience to connect and reconnect with our customers. Throughout the week, we interacted with dozens of customers to learn what is top-of-mind for […]

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) re:Invent 2022 recap

The Amazon Keyspaces team had a great time meeting with many of you at AWS re:Invent 2022. It was particularly exciting to experience re:Invent at its peak in-person attendance. The team enjoyed listening to your feedback and use cases, and understanding what you want us to build next. We work backwards from these conversations and feedback […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) re:Invent 2020 recap

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. AWS re:Invent 2020 was a very different event than past re:Invents, given the travel shutdown imposed in response to COVID-19, but that didn’t stop the Amazon DocumentDB […]

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 […]

Amazon ElastiCache at AWS re:Invent 2020

We just wrapped up an exciting AWS re:Invent! This year, four sessions focused on Amazon ElastiCache, highlighting technical deep dives, new service announcements, best practices, and more. In case you missed one of these sessions, check out the session recordings, along with highlights from the speakers themselves, so you can learn more about the most […]

Explore what’s in store for Amazon RDS at re:Invent 2020

Join us at re:Invent 2020, a free 3-week virtual conference, from November 30 to December 18. This year’s virtual conference is going to be the industry event of the year, offering five keynotes, 18 leadership sessions, and unlimited access to hundreds of sessions, including 10 sessions on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). In this […]