Choosing the Right AWS Database: A Guide for Modern Applications

Databases NoSQL Databases Relational Databases

Amazon Redshift Landing Page

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Amazon Redshift

Learn about Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouse.

Data warehousing is the process of storing and analyzing large volumes of data for business intelligence and analytics purposes. AWS offers a fully managed data warehousing service called Amazon Redshift that can handle petabyte-scale data warehouses with ease.

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Amazon RDS Landing Page

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Amazon RDS

Easy to manage relational databases optimized for total cost of ownership.

AWS RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It also provides automated backups, software patching, and high availability features to ensure that your database is always up and running. In terms of encryptions, AWS RDS allows encryption at rest for all the supported database engines. Such encryption is handled using AWS Key Management Service (KMS), which I highlighted in this blog post. In terms of backups, RDS allows 2 types of backups: Automated backups and Manual snapshots, in which data will persist even if you deleted the original RDS instance. High availability is provided via multi-AZ which ensures the availability of the database by having an exact copy of the database in another availability zone (AZ). If the main AZ goes down, the automatic failover protection allows the standby instance to be promoted into primary.

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Amazon Neptune Landing Page

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Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service that works with highly connected datasets. Learn about the benefits and popular use cases.

Graph databases are designed to store and process highly connected data, such as social networks, recommendation engines, and fraud detection systems. AWS offers a fully managed graph database service called Amazon Neptune that can handle graph data at scale.

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Amazon ElastiCache Landing Page

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Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis and Memcached. Seamlessly deploy, operate, and scale popular open source compatible in-memory data stores.

Key-value databases are designed to store and retrieve data using simple key-value pairs, making them ideal for applications that require fast and simple data access. AWS offers a fully managed key-value database service called Amazon ElastiCache that supports popular key-value engines such as Redis and Memcached.

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DynamoDB Landing Page

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DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. It is a fully managed cloud database and supports both document and key-value store models.

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document NoSQL database that can guarantee consistent reads and writes at any scale. It is designed to provide low-latency data access and high scalability and availability. It also supports features such as encryption at rest, backup and restore, and automatic scaling to ensure that your database can handle any workload. Amazon DynamoDB supports 2 types of consistency: Eventual Consistency (default) and Strong Consistency.

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