Category: Foundational (100)

In this post, we explore key strategies and AWS tools to help you successfully migrate your high-throughput relational database while minimizing business disruption.

Amazon DynamoDB enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time recovery (PITR). When you enable PITR, DynamoDB backs up your table data automatically with per-second granularity. PITR helps protect you against accidental writes and deletes. For example, if a test script accidentally writes to a production DynamoDB table, or someone mistakenly […]

Today, we introduce Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications. It offers virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It can scale to meet any workload demand without database sharding or instance upgrades. In this post, we discuss the benefits of Aurora DSQL and how to get started.

In this post, we discuss the nature of time-series data, its presence across different types of industries and various use cases it enables.Time-series data is one of the most valuable types of data used today by organizations across industries. Time-series data allows for a more in-depth understanding of changes, patterns, and trends over time. This enables organizations to gain insights into past behaviors and current states, as well as predict future values. The sequential tracking of data at precise time intervals enables both retrospective and prospective analysis that is extremely valuable for strategy, planning, and decision-making across industries. In this post, we discuss the nature of time-series data, its presence across different types of industries and various use cases it enables.

Amazon ElastiCache, a fully managed, Redis OSS- and Memcached-compatible caching service, now supports size flexibility for all its reserved node offerings, enabling your reserved node discount to apply across differently sized node types beyond the size specified in your reservation. With flexible reserved nodes, you no longer need to commit to a specific node size when purchasing a reservation, reducing the overhead of capacity planning and enabling you to right-size your clusters as your workloads and capacity needs change. In this post, we explain how you can use this new size flexibility feature to leverage discounted pricing on your ElastiCache clusters.

Data within public blockchain networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum can be accessed by anyone. However, accessing and making sense of this information has traditionally been a complex and technical undertaking. Much of the data is encoded and stored as bytes, rather than in a human-readable format. In this post, we introduce a solution that demonstrates how you can chat with blockchain data using Amazon Bedrock and the AWS Public Blockchain datasets. We discuss Amazon Bedrock, review the solution architecture, provide example prompts, share interesting findings, and go over how you can extend the solution to integrate with different data sources.

Starting with the Amazon Neptune engine version 1.3.2.X, openCypher query performance is up to 9 times faster and provides up to 10 times higher throughput than previous engine releases. You can create a new cluster or upgrade to this release for faster query performance, more open source features, and additional benefits.

Databases form a key part of any enterprise and managing databases during an M&A requires careful planning and implementation to ensure a smooth transition and to maintain data integrity. In this post, we highlight some of the key considerations for successful database management during a merger or acquisition spanning from data assessment to integration strategies.

Prashant Singh, Chief Operating Officer at LeadSquared, joins Pravin Mittal, Director of Engineering of Amazon Aurora, for a discussion on using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to scale their omnichannel customer service application while controlling costs. LeadSquared helps customers build truly connected, empowered, and self-reliant sales and service organizations, with the power of automation. This Executive […]

A joint letter to graph customers, the graph curious, and the Cypher community: Last week, the database world reached a significant milestone. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published GQL, a new database language standard designed for property graphs. GQL, which stands for Graph Query Language, is the first new ISO database language since the […]