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Category: Amazon DynamoDB
New – VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB
Starting today Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) (VPC) Endpoints for Amazon DynamoDB are available in all public AWS regions. You can provision an endpoint right away using the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). There are no additional costs for a VPC Endpoint for DynamoDB. Many AWS customers run […]
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Now Generally Available
Earlier this year I told you about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully-managed caching service that sits in front of (logically speaking) your Amazon DynamoDB tables. DAX returns cached responses in microseconds, making it a great fit for eventually-consistent read-intensive workloads. DAX supports the DynamoDB API, and is seamless and easy to use. As a […]
Box Platform on AWS Marketplace – Lambda Blueprints & Sample Code
Update (May 17, 2021) – The AWS Marketplace AMI that was formerly linked in the opening paragraph of this blog post is no longer available. Box is a cloud-based file sharing and content management system. With an array of features for collaboration and an emphasis on security, Box has found a home in many enterprises […]
New – Auto Scaling for Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB has more than one hundred thousand customers, spanning a wide range of industries and use cases. These customers depend on DynamoDB’s consistent performance at any scale and presence in 16 geographic regions around the world. A recent trend we’ve been observing is customers using DynamoDB to power their serverless applications. This is a […]
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) – In-Memory Caching for Read-Intensive Workloads
I’m fairly sure that you already know about Amazon DynamoDB. As you probably know, it is a managed NoSQL database that scales to accommodate as much table space, read capacity, and write capacity as you need. With response times measured in single-digit milliseconds, our customers are using DynamoDB for many types of applications including adtech, […]
New – Manage DynamoDB Items Using Time to Live (TTL)
AWS customers are making great use of Amazon DynamoDB. They love the speed and flexibility and build Ad Tech (reference architecture), Gaming (reference architecture), IoT (reference architecture), and other applications that take advantage of the consistent, single-digit millisecond latency. They also love the fact that DynamoDB is a managed, serverless database that scales to handle […]
Genome Engineering Applications: Early Adopters of the Cloud
Our friends at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia sent along the guest post below to tell us about how AWS powers an important new genome editing technique. — Jeff Recent developments in molecular engineering technology now enables the accurate editing of genomes. The new technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, can be […]
How Tokyu Hands Architected a Cost-Effective Shopping System with Amazon DynamoDB
Update (April 2024) – This blog post has been removed at the request of the customer — Jeff;





