Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that offers fast, scalable, and secure data handling, suitable for various data types and large volumes. It features high availability through multi-AZ replication, consistent performance, and options like DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) for microsecond response times. Key benefits include ease of management, robust security, and flexible cost structures, making it ideal for applications with diverse and demanding data needs.

1. Amazon DynamoDB
Fast, flexible, secure, NoSQL database service, for any scale
Pranav Nambiar
Senior Manager (PM), AWS
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2. Social Media
IOT Sensor Data
Bio-metrics
Click-stream data
User-activity Logs
Satellite Data
RFID
Maps
Online Content
Weather data
Email
Documents
Audio/
Video
Images
Traditional
Tabular Data

3. Social Media
IOT Sensor Data
Bio-metrics
Click-stream data
User-activity Logs
Satellite Data
RFID
Maps
Online Content
Weather data
Email
Documents
Audio/
Video
Images
Traditional
Tabular Data
Structured
Data
Semi-structured/
Un-structured Data
Data
Volume
Performance
Requirements

4. How to optimize for scale, performance, cost?
Scale Performance Cost
Zero Worries !!!

5. Amazon’s Journey
Dec ‘04:
Suffers
outage
Oct ‘07:
Dynamo paper
published
Jan ‘12:
DynamoDB General
Availability
Q3 ‘16:
Leader in Gartner MQ,
Forrester Wave
Today:
Tier-0 service
powering most of
Amazon

6. DynamoDB Customers
Ad TechGaming IoTMobile Web

7. Amazon DynamoDB
NoSQL Database (Document & Key-value store)
Fully managed
Fast – response times in microseconds
Massive and seamless scalability
Highly available
Low Cost

8. 1. Scalability
3. Performance
4. Security & Monitoring
2. Availability & Data Protection
5. Manageability & TCO
6. Dev Platform & Tools
Our Key Investment Pillars

9. Scalability
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10. Writes
Reads
>200% increase from baseline
>300% increase from baseline
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• Millions of tables; Several tables with >100TB
• 10’s of PBs of data; Trillions of requests/month

11. Availability & Data Protection
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12. North America
US East – N. Virginia
US East - Ohio
US West – Oregon
US West – San
Francisco
Canada - Central
AWS GovCloud (US)
European
Union
Dublin
London
Frankfurt
Asia
Pacific
Tokyo
Singapore
Sydney
Mumbai
Seoul
South
America
Sao Paulo
China
• Available in 16 regions worldwide
• Built-in replication across 3 Availability Zones
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13. WRITES
Replicated continuously to 3 AZ’s
Persisted to disk (custom SSD)
READS
Strongly or eventually consistent
No latency trade-off
Designed to
support
99.99%
of availability
Built for high
Durability
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14. 1 2
Multi-AZ & Cross-Region Replication
Features
Key Benefits
• High availability with transparent replication at
no extra cost
• Disaster recovery on complete single region
failure
• Scale-out by directing read traffic to replicas
• Built-In 3-way data replication to three
Availability Zones (AZ) within an AWS region
• Replicate to other regions with open source,
fully-extensible, library
1
2
Available Today
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15. Performance
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16. DynamoDB: consistent performance at scale
ConsistentSingle-Digit Millisecond Latency
Requests(millions)
Latency(milliseconds)
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17. Introducing DAX
What if we could go from milliseconds to microseconds?
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18. DynamoDB
DynamoDB Accelerator(DAX)
Your Applications
New!
• Fully managed: handle all of the upgrades, patching,
and software management
• Flexible: Configure DAX for one table or many
• Highly available: fault tolerant, replication across
multi-AZs within a region
• Scalable: scales-out to any workload with up to 10
read replicas
• Manageability: fully integrated AWS service: Amazon
CloudWatch, Tagging for DynamoDB, AWS Console
• Security: Amazon VPC, AWS IAM, AWS CloudTrail,
AWS Organizations
Features
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) In Public Preview
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19. DynamoDB
DynamoDB Accelerator(DAX)
Your Applications
New!
Key Benefits
• Fast performance: Microseconds response
times at millions of reads/sec from single DAX
cluster
• Ease of use: DynamoDB API compatible -
requires minimal code change for existing
applications, simplifying developer experience
• Lower costs: Reduce provisioned read
capacity for DynamoDB tables for tables with
hot data
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) In Public Preview
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20. Security
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21. Fine-grained Access control (FGAC) at a table, item or attribute level
with AWS IAM
Client-side encryption library with optional AWS KMS integration;
encrypt select or all attributes
Log DynamoDB configuration, table setup changes and API calls
with AWS CloudTrail
Monitor performance and trigger alarms with AWS CloudWatch
Available Today
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22. • VPC: Access DynamoDB via secure
Amazon VPC endpoint
• Access Control: restrict table access for
each VPC endpoint with a unique IAM
role and permissions
Features
Key Benefits
• Turn off access from public Internet
gateways enhancing privacy and
security
• Fast, secure data transfer between
Amazon VPC and DynamoDB
VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB (VPC-E) In Public Preview
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23. Manageability
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24. DB hosted on premise
DynamoDB
Fully Managed service, removes management overhead
Power, HVAC, net
Rack & stack
Server maintenance
OS patches
DB s/w patches
Database backups
App optimization
High availability
DB s/w installs
OS installation
you
Scaling
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25. Pay-as-you-grow
Features
Key Benefits
Available Today
RCU WCU Storage
• Fully managed, serverless, database service
• Non-expiring free tier with 25 RCU, 25 WCU, 25GB storage
and 2.5M reads for Streams
• Provision read and write capacity for base tables and GSI
independently
• Pay only for provisioned read/write capacity and actual
storage consumed
• Increase provisioned capacity in granular single unit
increments
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26. Time-to-Live (TTL)
ID Name Size Expiry
1234 A 100 1456702305
2222 B 240 1456702400
3423 C 150 1459207905
TTL Value
(Epoch format)
TTL Attribute
• Automatic: Deletes items from a table based on
expiration timestamp
• Customizable: User-defined TTL attribute in epoch
time format
• Audit Log: TTL activity recorded in DynamoDB
Streams
Features
Key Benefits
• Reduce costs: Delete items no longer needed
• Performance: Optimize application performance by
controlling table size growth
• Extensible: Trigger custom workflows with
DynamoDB Streams and Lambda
Available Today
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27. Tagging
• Track costs: AWS bills broken down by tags
in detailed monthly bills and Cost Explorer
• Flexible: Add customizable tags to both
tables and indexes
Features
Key Benefits
• Transparency: Know exactly how much
your DynamoDB tables and indexes cost
• Consistent: Report of spend across AWS
services
Available Today
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28. Developer Platform & Tools
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29. Working with AWS Ecosystem
IoT
S3
Kinesis
EMR
Redshift
Data Pipeline
Mobile HubLambda
Elasticsearch
SNS
CloudWatch
CloudTrail
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30. RFID
RFID
RFID Chips
DynamoDB DynamoDB Streams
US East (N. Virginia)
US West (SFO)
Cross-region replication
Real-time notification
using DynamoDB
Triggers
Text Search
RFID
Online
Indexing
Document/Key-value
store with support1
2
4
6
5
7
3
Connect to EMR /
Redshift for further
analysis
8
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31. Summing it all up

32. Reasons to migrate
Volume
Variety
Velocity
Veracity
Value
Data published by Forbes Magazine

33. • Millions of
requests per
second from single
table
• Unlimited items
and storage
• Consistent, single
digit millisecond
latency
• Optimized for
analytics
workloads with
native indexing
• Microsecond
response times
with DynamoDB
Accelerator
(DAX)*
• Control user
access at items
and attributes level
• SOC, PCI, ISO,
FedRAMP (Mod &
High), HIPAA BAA
• Monitor with
CloudWatch
metrics & logging
with CloudTrail
• Client-side
encryption library
• Secure, private
VPC endpoints*
• Designed for
99.99% high
availability (HA)
• Built-in replication
across 3 zones
• Fully-managed
• Perpetual free tier
• Pay-as-you-grow
for capacity and
storage
independently
• Track table level
spending with
Tagging
• Purge data
automatically
(Time To Live)
• Event-driven
programming with
Triggers & Lambda
• Advanced
analytics with EMR
& Amazon
Redshift
• Full-text query
support with
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
• Real-time stream
processing with
Amazon Kinesis
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Data Protection
Manageability &
TCO
Dev Platform &
Tools
* In public preview

34. Thank You!
Pranav Nambiar
Senior Manager (PM), AWS
© 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.