Choosing the right persistence layer for your serverless application is important. In this session, we walk you through the available choices for serverless databases and compare their pros and cons. Expect to walk away with a simple flowchart that can help you decide on the right database for your serverless applications.

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Which Database Is Right for Your
Serverless Application?
Mike Deck
Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
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Tapodipta Ghosh
Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

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Serverless characteristics

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Database characteristics
• Data model and access patterns
• Scale and performance
• Networking and connectivity
• Event integration

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The NoSQL workhorse
• NoSQL key-value store
• High throughput, low latency
• API-driven
• Lambda event source

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Text indexing and search
• Text searching and analytics
• AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM) access controls
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose ingestion

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Key-value object storage
• Large object sizes (up to 5TB)
• High throughput/parallelism
• Lambda event source

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Serverless interactive query
service
• Decouple storage from compute
• Secure—IAM for authentication;
encryption at rest & in transit
• Out-of-the-box integration with AWS
Glue Data Catalog

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Relational database
• Relational data model
• Transactional consistency
• Stateful connections
• Requires VPC

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Serverless relational database
• MySQL compatible
• PostgreSQL support announced
• Managed scaling
• Data API in Beta

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Non-durable, high-speed
• Redis and Memcached
• Key-value and other data
• Low latency
• Server-based scaling
• Requires VPC

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15. Thank you!
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Mike Deck
Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Tapodipta Ghosh
Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

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