If you store sensitive or confidential data in Amazon DynamoDB, you might want to encrypt that data as close as possible to its origin so your data is protected throughout its lifecycle. You can use the DynamoDB Encryption Client to protect your table data before you send it to DynamoDB...
In this post, I describe how to useAmazon DynamoDBto power the database of a global backend deployed in multiple AWS Regions. I use DynamoDBglobal tables, which provide a fully managed, multiregion, and multimaster database so that you can deliver low-latency data access to...
Use the connection_string to create the mongoclient and get the MongoDB database connection. Change the username, password, and cluster name. In this python mongodb tutorial, we will create a shopping list and add a few items. For this, we created a database user_shopping_list. MongoDB...
Alternatives for development and quick scripting are to store your credentials in an ini formatted config file (~/.aws/credentials), or paste them directly into your code. Installing the aws-sdk-dynamodb gem Make sure you have the aws-sdk-dynamodb gem installed: gem install aws-sdk-dynamodb...
DAX maintains anitem cacheto store the results fromGetItemandBatchGetItemoperations. The items in the cache represent eventually consistent data from DynamoDB, and are stored by their primary key values. When an application sends aGetItemorBatchGetItemrequest, DAX tries to read the items directly fr...
DynamoDB, on the other hand, uses a shift-left model of scalability. It forces you to think about designing your data model up front in a way that will scale. With DynamoDB, there's no black box as to how your database will scale: ...
If you are working with data, you must understand how to store it in the cloud. Different cloud providers offer various storage options tailored to your different needs. On one hand, object storage, such as AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage, is ideal for storing unstructured data like images an...
The rest of this post describes why and how Kount migrated this mission-critical device data store from Cassandra to DynamoDB. The challenge (and how DynamoDB came into the picture) Given the importance of Device data and the volume of the workload, the Device team is constantly fielding enh...
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We store 2.3TB of data per day on them. We have had our issues with user metadata and audit logs on Elasticsearch though. Part of the reason is that we outgrew the tool, at least in the use case we have: we need to store hundreds of thousands of different fields for search, ...