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Tag: DynamoDB
Backfilling an Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) attribute with Amazon EMR
Bulk updates to a database can be disruptive and potentially cause downtime, performance impacts to your business processes, or overprovisioning of compute and storage resources. When performing bulk updates, you want to choose a process that runs quickly, enables you to operate your business uninterrupted, and minimizes your cost. Let’s take a look at how […]
Read MoreData modeling with NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB
When using a NoSQL database such as Amazon DynamoDB, I tend to make different optimization choices than what I am accustomed to with relational databases. At the beginning, it was not easy for me, because my relational database experience was telling me to do things differently. To help with that, AWS released NoSQL Workbench for […]
Read MoreImplementing bulk CSV ingestion to Amazon DynamoDB
This post reviews what solutions exist today for ingesting data into Amazon DynamoDB. It also presents a streamlined solution for bulk ingestion of CSV files into a DynamoDB table from an Amazon S3 bucket and provides an AWS CloudFormation template of the solution for easy deployment into your AWS account. Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value […]
Read MoreRunning spiky workloads and optimizing costs by more than 90% using Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity mode
This is a guest post by Keisuke Utsumi, a Software Engineer with TVer Technologies Inc. In their own words, “TVer Technologies Inc. offers interactive entertainment services to users using a synchronized website with a TV broadcast.” TVer Technologies Inc. provides website and app-based interactive content for TV viewers in Japan. Many of our applications use […]
Read MoreRestore Amazon DynamoDB backups to different AWS Regions with custom table settings
Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore provides simple, fully automated features to create continuous and on-demand backups of your DynamoDB tables and then restore data from those backups. With point-in-time recovery (PITR), you can create continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. DynamoDB can back up your data with per-second granularity and restore to any given second […]
Read MoreHow realtor.com® maximized data upload from Amazon S3 into Amazon DynamoDB
This is a customer post by Arup Ray, VP Data Technology at realtor.com ®, and Daniel Whitehead, AWS Solutions Architect. Arup Ray would like to acknowledge Anil Pillai, Software Development Engineer at Amazon, for his pioneering contributions to this project during his former tenure at realtor.com ® as Senior Principal Data Engineer. realtor.com ®, operated […]
Read MoreBuilding enterprise applications using Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Go
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed service that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is fully managed, highly available through behind-the-scene Multi-AZ data replication, supports native write-through caching with Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) as well as multiple global secondary indexes. Developers can interact with DynamoDB using the AWS SDK in a rich set […]
Read MoreMake a New Year’s resolution: Follow Amazon DynamoDB best practices
As the new year begins, we encourage you to make a resolution to follow Amazon DynamoDB best practices. Following these best practices can help you maximize performance and minimize throughput costs when working with DynamoDB. Click the following links to learn more about each best practice in the DynamoDB documentation. Design and use partition keys […]
Read MoreThe top 20 most-viewed Amazon DynamoDB documentation pages in 2019
The following 20 pages were the most viewed Amazon DynamoDB documentation pages in 2019. I have included a brief description with each link to explain what each page covers. Use this list to see what other AWS customers have been viewing and perhaps to pique your own interest in a topic you’ve been meaning to explore. […]
Read MoreAmazon DynamoDB–related videos and slide decks from AWS re:Invent 2019
This blog post includes links to videos and slide decks of the keynotes and Amazon DynamoDB–related sessions from AWS re:Invent 2019. Video recordings were not made of workshops, chalk talks, and builders sessions. As of the publication of this post, not all of the slide decks are available for download, but we will update this […]
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