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Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0, and 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB […]

In the pharmaceutical industry, the cost of clinical research and clinical trials is extremely high, which results in higher drug prices and insurance expenses. Furthermore, the high costs have resulted in decreased numbers of clinical trials at national research institutes and universities, slowing the progress of pharmaceutical research. In addition, incidents of data falsification or […]

April, 2026: Aurora Serverless v2 has been renamed Aurora serverless. No action required. This is the second post of the two-part series on how application developers can take advantage of Amazon Aurora features, capabilities, and complementary services. In Part 1, we shared the first five tips: Split the application SQL read/write load to enhance your […]

April, 2026: Aurora Serverless v2 has been renamed Aurora serverless. No action required. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible enterprise class database built from the ground up for cloud-native applications. Application developers write their code using standard tooling and libraries such as JDBC drivers for Java applications, and NodeJS packages for JavaScript applications. Developers […]

In this post, we show you a modernization path for the migration of your JSON workloads from on-premises databases to the AWS Cloud. You can move your document workloads to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and use full capabilities of this purpose-built JSON database. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully-managed native JSON document database that makes […]

This post is co-written with Bobber Cheng and Ronit Rudra from CSC Generation. CSC Generation is a company that focuses on acquiring overlooked stores and catalog-based retailers and transforming them into high-performance, digital-first brands. As we grew through multiple acquisitions, it became apparent that our legacy product information system (PIM), backed by relational databases, was […]

In this blog post, we explain why you should consider moving your self-managed open source software (OSS) Redis workloads to managed Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. OSS Redis is a powerful, in-memory data store designed to meet the demands of modern high-performance applications. With OSS Redis, you can tackle a wide range of use-cases, including caching, […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB-compatible JSON based workloads. On 02/MAR/2023, Amazon DocumentDB launched support for Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE), MongoDB 5.0 API compatibility, new aggregation operators, and other enhancements. In this post, we summarize what’s new in Amazon DocumentDB and […]

Authorized Amazon DynamoDB users can perform actions against tables using the AWS Management Console, API, AWS CLI/SDK, or AWS CloudFormation. One of many possible operations that authorized users can perform is deleting a table. During the course of regular table management operations, authorized users might accidentally delete a table. Accidental deletion of a table can […]

Amazon Neptune version 1.2.1.0 now supports the Apache TinkerPop 3.6.x release line, which offers a number of major new features and improvements to existing functionality. New features include fresh additions to the Gremlin language itself, like the P.regex predicate for filters and the mergeV() and mergeE() steps, which should help simplify complex upsert-like functionality. In this […]