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10 Amazon Aurora tips for application developers – Part 2

This is the second post of the two-part series on how application developers can take advantage of Amazon Aurora features, capabilities, and complementary services. In Part 1, we shared the first five tips: Split the application SQL read/write load to enhance your app’s performance. For Java apps, use AWS JDBC drivers for faster app recovery […]

10 Amazon Aurora tips for application developers – Part 1

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible enterprise class database built from the ground up for cloud-native applications. Application developers write their code using standard tooling and libraries such as JDBC drivers for Java applications, and NodeJS packages for JavaScript applications. Developers often treat Aurora like a typical RDBMS database engine and fail to utilize […]

Migrate document workloads from Oracle SODA to Amazon DocumentDB

In this post, we show you a modernization path for the migration of your JSON workloads from on-premises databases to the AWS Cloud. You can move your document workloads to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and use full capabilities of this purpose-built JSON database. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully-managed native JSON document database that makes […]

How CSC Generation powers product discovery with knowledge graphs using Amazon Neptune

This post is co-written with Bobber Cheng and Ronit Rudra from CSC Generation. CSC Generation is a company that focuses on acquiring overlooked stores and catalog-based retailers and transforming them into high-performance, digital-first brands. As we grew through multiple acquisitions, it became apparent that our legacy product information system (PIM), backed by relational databases, was […]

Optimize costs by moving your self-managed open source software (OSS) Redis workloads to Amazon ElastiCache

In this blog post, we explain why you should consider moving your self-managed open source software (OSS) Redis workloads to managed Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. OSS Redis is a powerful, in-memory data store designed to meet the demands of modern high-performance applications. With OSS Redis, you can tackle a wide range of use-cases, including caching, […]

Introducing Client-Side Field Level Encryption and MongoDB 5.0 API compatibility in Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB-compatible JSON based workloads. On 02/MAR/2023, Amazon DocumentDB launched support for Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE), MongoDB 5.0 API compatibility, new aggregation operators, and other enhancements. In this post, we summarize what’s new in Amazon DocumentDB and […]

How to use deletion protection to enhance your Amazon DynamoDB table protection strategy

Authorized Amazon DynamoDB users can perform actions against tables using the AWS Management Console, API, AWS CLI/SDK, or AWS CloudFormation. One of many possible operations that authorized users can perform is deleting a table. During the course of regular table management operations, authorized users might accidentally delete a table. Accidental deletion of a table can […]

Exploring new features of Apache TinkerPop 3.6.x in Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune version 1.2.1.0 now supports the Apache TinkerPop 3.6.x release line, which offers a number of major new features and improvements to existing functionality. New features include fresh additions to the Gremlin language itself, like the P.regex predicate for filters and the mergeV() and mergeE() steps, which should help simplify complex upsert-like functionality. In this […]

Evaluate Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 for your provisioned Aurora clusters

In this post, you learn about Aurora Serverless v2 databases and factors to consider when replacing provisioned instances with Aurora Serverless v2 instances. Amazon Aurora Serverless allows you to use Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without worrying about the management of the compute for your application database. Many organizations today are […]

Calculate Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity recommendations to optimize costs

This post is co-written with Sanjna Srivatsa, Data Scientist at VMware. Amazon DynamoDB provides discounts ranging from 50 percent to 77 percent to customers who commit to paying for a minimum usage level, called reserved capacity. In this post, you learn how to use historical DynamoDB usage data to make your first DynamoDB reserved capacity […]