AWS Database Blog

Category: Announcements

Join the preview of attribute-based access control for Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. AWS recently announced the limited preview of attribute-based access control (ABAC) for Amazon DynamoDB. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on attributes. In AWS, these attributes are called tags. You can attach tags to […]

Build and deploy knowledge graphs faster with RDF and openCypher

Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports openCypher queries over RDF graphs. When you build an application that uses a graph database such as Amazon Neptune, you’re typically faced with a technology choice at the start: There are two different types of graphs, Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs and labeled property graphs (LPGs), and your choice of […]

Introducing smaller capacity units for Amazon Neptune Analytics: Up to 75% cheaper to get started with graph analytics workloads

In this post, we show how you can reduce your cost by up to 75% when getting started with graph analytics workloads using the new 32 and 64 m-NCU capacities for Neptune Analytics. Many commonly used sample datasets can fit on 32 or 64 m-NCU, allowing you to work with the same data but at a lower cost. We also discuss how to monitor the graph size and resize m-NCUs without downtime.

New Amazon Neptune engine version delivers up to 9 times faster and 10 times higher throughput for openCypher query performance

Starting with the Amazon Neptune engine version 1.3.2.X, openCypher query performance is up to 9 times faster and provides up to 10 times higher throughput than previous engine releases. You can create a new cluster or upgrade to this release for faster query performance, more open source features, and additional benefits.

Introducing the Advanced Python Wrapper Driver for Amazon Aurora

Building upon our work with the Advanced JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Wrapper Driver, we are continuing to enhance the scalability and resiliency of today’s modern applications that are built with Python. The Advanced Python Wrapper Driver has been released as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 License. You can find the project on GitHub. In this post, we provide details on how to use some of the features of the Advanced Python Wrapper Driver.

Exploring new features of Apache TinkerPop 3.7.x in Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune 1.3.2.0 now supports the Apache TinkerPop 3.7.x release line, introducing many major new features and improvements. In this post, we highlight the features that have the greatest impact on Gremlin developers using Neptune, to help you understand the implications of upgrading to these versions of Neptune and TinkerPop.

Build time-series applications faster with Amazon EventBridge Pipes and Timestream for LiveAnalytics

Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to store and analyze trillions of events per day. You can use Timestream for LiveAnalytics for use cases like monitoring hundreds of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, industrial equipment, gaming sessions, streaming video sessions, financial, […]

Enhanced Full Load Performance in AWS DMS Serverless

With AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), you can migrate your data from relational databases and data warehouses to AWS or a combination of a cloud and on-premises configurations. In June 2023, AWS DMS Serverless was released, which automatically provisions, scales, and manages migration resources to make database migrations straightforward and more cost-effective. It removes the necessity of handling infrastructure tasks like capacity estimation, provisioning, cost-optimization, and managing versions and patching. In this post, we provide an overview of this new feature and present benchmarking results for two use cases.