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Happy seventh birthday to Amazon DynamoDB!

Happy birthday candles and balloons

Seven years ago today, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced the release of Amazon DynamoDB. We developed DynamoDB on the core principles from a whitepaper published in October 2007, and over the last seven years, we have continued to build this fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale, one of a selection of AWS purpose-built databases.

We thought it would be fun to look back on the “What’s New” posts from just 2018 and 2017 to show the more-recent growth of DynamoDB. These posts cover a gamut of feature releases including transactions, on-demand capacity mode, point-in-time recovery, global tables, backup and restore, and auto scaling.

Here’s to many more DynamoDB birthdays to come!

2018 – Transactions, on-demand, and PITR

December 20 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for DynamoDB Transactions
December 19 Amazon DynamoDB Increases the Number of Global Secondary Indexes and Projected Index Attributes You Can Create Per Table
November 28 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand
November 27 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Support for Transactions
November 19 Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Now Available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
November 15 Amazon DynamoDB encrypts all customer data at rest
September 20 AWS Database Migration Service Makes It Easier to Migrate Cassandra Databases to Amazon DynamoDB
September 12 Amazon DynamoDB Encryption at Rest Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) and EU (Paris) Regions
August 27 Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Available in Additional Regions
August 22 Use Amazon DynamoDB Local More Easily with the New Docker Image
August 14 Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet
August 9 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for Encryption at Rest
July 26 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) r4 Instance Types Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
July 25 Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Now Available in Three Additional Asia Pacific Regions
July 19 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK Enhancements
June 28 Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Regional Expansion
June 26 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Go Now Available
June 19 Amazon DynamoDB Announces 99.999% Service Level Agreement for Global Tables
May 3 Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client Is Now Available in Python
April 30 Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Regional Expansion
April 26 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Regional Expansion
April 19 Amazon DynamoDB Encryption at Rest Now Available in Additional Regions
March 26 Amazon DynamoDB Adds Support for Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
February 13 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Releases SDKs for Python and .NET, Support for T2 Instances, and now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
February 8 Amazon DynamoDB Now Supports Server-Side Encryption at Rest

2017 – Global tables, backup and restore, and auto scaling

November 29

AWS Launches Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables

AWS Launches Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore
October 5 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) releases SDK for Node.js, support for R4 instances and general availability in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South America (São Paulo) regions
June 14 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling
April 19 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), Delivering up to 10X Faster Query Performance
February 27 Amazon DynamoDB now supports automatic item expiration with Time-to-Live (TTL)
January 18 Amazon DynamoDB now Supports Cost Allocation Tags

About the author

Craig LiebendorferCraig Liebendorfer is a senior technical editor at Amazon Web Services.