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Category: Amazon DynamoDB

Freecharge lowered their identity management system cost and improved scaling by switching to Amazon DynamoDB

Freecharge, subsidiary of Axis Bank, is a payment app serving over 100 million users across India. Over the years, Freecharge has transformed to become one of the leading financial services and investment apps in the country. Freecharge has always been known for offering safe and seamless UPI payments, utility bill payments, mobile/DTH recharges, and much […]

Continuously replicate Amazon DynamoDB changes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Lambda

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Serverless technologies eliminate infrastructure management tasks […]

How Heroku reduced their operational overhead by migrating their 30 TB self-managed database from Amazon EC2 to Amazon DynamoDB

Heroku is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) solution that makes it straightforward for developers to deploy, operate, and scale applications on AWS. Founded in 2007 and a part of Salesforce since 2010, Heroku is the chosen platform for millions of applications—from development teams at small startups to large enterprises with large-scale deployments. […]

Introducing configurable maximum throughput for Amazon DynamoDB on-demand

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL database service that enables you to develop modern applications at any scale. DynamoDB on-demand mode offers a truly serverless experience that can serve millions of requests per second without capacity planning, and automatic scale down to zero when no requests are being issued against the table. With on-demand mode’s […]

How VTEX improved the shopper experience with Amazon DynamoDB

This is a guest post co-written with Mateus Ribeiro de Castro and Tiaraju Smaneoto from VTEX. VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the enterprise digital commerce platform where forward-thinking CEOs and CIOs smarten up their investments. Our composable and complete platform helps brands and retailers modernize their stack and reduce maintenance costs by rapidly migrating from legacy […]

Common financial services use cases for Amazon DynamoDB

Financial services customers choose DynamoDB for security, resilience, performance, and scale. In this post, we discuss how Amazon DynamoDB helps financial services customers overcome these challenges for common industry use cases. We also share customer examples, such as Fidelity Investments, Experian, Moody’s, and other financial services applications that are built with DynamoDB.

Amazon Robotics achieves worldwide scale and improves engineering efficiency by 35% with Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Robotics (AR) designs advanced robotic solutions so the Amazon fulfillment network can meet delivery promises for millions of customers every day. AR builds critical software that controls over a half a million mobile robots used in hundreds of Amazon sites spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With a focus on engineering efficiency, the […]

Performant, Fine Grained Authorization at scale powered by Amazon DynamoDB

Okta is an identity and access management company. It has established itself as a key player in the digital security landscape. The Okta cloud platform powers thousands of businesses and applications worldwide and offers access management solutions for both workforce and customer identity use cases. The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) provides robust access management […]

Simplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policies

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Customers increasingly use workload isolation strategies to minimize security threats and to ease the complexity of compliance demands for their DynamoDB-backed workloads. Implementing workload isolation strategies often requires cross-account and cross-Region access to DynamoDB resources using IAM identity-based policies, which […]

Bulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step Functions

Developers want to perform bulk updates to modify items in their Amazon DynamoDB tables. Reasons for performing bulk updates can include: Adding or updating attributes – backfilling a Time to Live (TTL) value or populating an attribute to support a new access pattern or global secondary index (GSI). For example, enriching existing data with new […]