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Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance for applications at any scale. DynamoDB global tables is a multi-active database feature that replicates data across AWS Regions, enabling local reads and writes. In this post, we explain why we strongly recommend all customers use the Current version for all global tables.

In this post, we dive deep into Amazon Aurora Global Database’s new support for up to 10 secondary Regions and explore use cases it unlocks. An Aurora Global Database consists of one primary Region and up to 10 read-only secondary Regions for low-latency local reads.

In this post, we demonstrate how upgrading to Graviton4-based R8g instances with Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible 17.4 on Aurora I/O-Optimized cluster configuration can deliver significant price-performance gains – delivering up to 1.7 times higher write throughput, 1.38 times better price-performance and reducing commit latency by up to 46% on r8g.16xlarge instances and 38% on r8g.2xlarge instances as compared to Graviton2-based R6g instances.

In this series of posts, we walk through the process of creating a DynamoDB data model using an example multi-tenant application, a customer issue tracking service. The goal of this series is to explore areas that are important for decision-making and provide insights into the influences to help you plan your data model for a multi-tenant application. In this post, we define the access patterns and decide on the table design.

pgTAP (PostgreSQL Test Anything Protocol) is a unit testing framework that empowers developers to write and run tests directly within the database. In this post, we explore how to leverage the pgTAP extension for unit testing on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database, helping you build robust and reliable database applications.

Authorization systems are a critical component of modern applications, yet traditional approaches like role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) struggle to meet the complex access control requirements of today’s enterprises. In this post, we introduce a relationship-based access control (ReBAC) as an alternative for enterprise scale authorization. We explore how the proposed […]

We are excited to announce the availability of new features in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.5.4. This release includes two major enhancements: data masking for enhanced security and improved data validation performance. In this post, we deep dive into these two features. Refer to the release notes to see a list of all the new features available in this version.

Zupee is a leading skill-based gaming platform offering casual and board games and is one of the fastest growing real money gaming platforms in India. Users can play multiple skill-based games online and win prizes. In this post, we show you how Zupee integrated Amazon Neptune Database to detect anomalies in real time for wallet transactions by creating a system for tracing the complex relationships between users, devices, and wallet transactions metadata.

When getting started with DynamoDB, one of the first decisions you will make is choosing between two throughput modes: on-demand and provisioned. On-demand mode is the default and recommended throughput option because it simplifies building modern, serverless applications that can start small and scale to millions of requests per second. However, choosing the right throughput strategy requires evaluating your operational needs, development velocity, and application characteristics, with cost being a key consideration. In this post, we examine both throughput modes in detail, exploring their characteristics, strengths, and ideal use cases.

In this post, we explore the basics of integrating a Spring Boot application with ElastiCache to enable caching. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS-compatible service that delivers real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications with 99.99% SLA availability. ElastiCache speeds up application performance, scaling to millions of operations per second with microsecond response time.