AWS Database Blog

Category: Customer Solutions

a-tune accelerates their AWS migrations using migration strategy and implementation plans from Amazon Database Migration Accelerator

AWS launched Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) to accelerate your journey to AWS Databases and Analytics services and achieve cloud adoption benefits such as cost savings and performance improvements. In this post, we share how the Amazon DMA team helped a-tune accelerate their migrations to AWS Databases and Analytics services. a-tune offers data and […]

Evolution of Koo’s database and how they connected millions of voices using Amazon DynamoDB

This post is co-authored with Vivek Yadav from Koo. Koo is a global micro-blogging platform that allows users to share their thoughts and opinions in various languages. Launched in March 2020, the app has quickly gained immense popularity, with millions of users joining the platform to share their views and connect with like-minded individuals. In […]

Security is time series: How VMware Carbon Black improves and scales security observability with Amazon Timestream

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. Amazon Timestream is a fast, serverless, and secure time series database and analytics service that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day. Organizations […]

Power microservices architectures with Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Applications in the past were monolithic and rigid, and their components were closely coupled with each other, making them difficult to develop, maintain, and adapt to changing business requirements. Today’s businesses need to deliver changes rapidly, frequently and reliably. To overcome these issues, organizations are moving from development of monolithic applications to microservices architectures for […]

How Getir build a comprehensive fraud detection system using Amazon Neptune and Amazon DynamoDB

This is a guest post co-authored by Berkay Berkman, Yağız Yanıkoğlu, Mutlu Polatcan, Mahmut Turan, Umut Cemal Kıraç from Getir. Getir is an ultrafast delivery pioneer that revolutionized last-mile delivery in 2015 with its 10-minute grocery delivery proposition. Getir’s story started in Istanbul, and they launched operations in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, […]

Contributing to therapeutic drug development using Amazon Managed Blockchain

In the pharmaceutical industry, the cost of clinical research and clinical trials is extremely high, which results in higher drug prices and insurance expenses. Furthermore, the high costs have resulted in decreased numbers of clinical trials at national research institutes and universities, slowing the progress of pharmaceutical research. In addition, incidents of data falsification or […]

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 […]

RWE Supply & Trading modernizes their IT landscape on AWS using Amazon Database Migration Accelerator

RWE, a leading European energy utility, embarked on the mission “Go Green” in 2021, and aims to be carbon neutral by 2040. RWE is planning to shift their portfolio from conventionally generated energy to renewables like wind, solar energy, and hydrogen. As part of this initiative, RWE Supply & Trading (RWEST), the energy trading company […]

How Skai performed database modernization and migration with AWS DMS

This is a guest post by Niv Gelbermann Shkolnik , Software Engineer at Skai co-authored with Eran Balan, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. Skai is the leading omnichannel platform that helps performance marketers plan, activate, and measure programs across digital media for informed decisions, high efficiency and optimal return. In this post, we discuss how […]

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 […]