Amazon DynamoDB is the infinite scale database that powers Amazon. Explore Amazon DynamoDB capabilities and benefits in detail and learn how to get the most out of your DynamoDB database. We go over best practices for multiple use cases, including gaming, Ad Tech, IoT, and others. We’ll explore new features, including DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), TTL, Tagging, VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB. Learn how customers have successfully used these features to deploy their applications.

1. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Jim Scharf, General Manager
April 19, 2017
Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB Just Got Faster: Deep Dive on DAX and
More

2. Amazon DynamoDB
Fast and flexible NoSQL database
service for any scale

3. Amazon DynamoDB Journey
Oct ‘07: Dynamo
paper published
Jan ‘12:
DynamoDB
Launch
Today:
DynamoDB
Accelerator (DAX)
and
VPC Endpoints for
DynamoDB
New!

4. DynamoDB Customers

5. Scalability Performance Security Availability Manageability Developer
Platform

6. Scalability
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8. Performance
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9. DynamoDB: consistent performance at scale
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DAX Demo

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• 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)

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Repeated users are now being handled by the DAX cache
without making the more expensive (in both latency & cost)
call to DynamoDB
Shahar Kobrinky
VP of Architecture and Scale at Eyeview
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DAX represents a big opportunity for us to
find the optimal balance between infrastructure cost and
system performance
Brandon O’Brien
Principle Software Engineer, Expedia, Inc.
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DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

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The AWS team has taken a best-practice architectural
pattern and turned it into something repeatable and
valuable for its customers
Glenn Nethercutt
Chief Architect, Genesys
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The ability to supercharge DynamoDB with DAX is
something we're looking forward to
Pat Malatack
General Manager of Twilio Messaging
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DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

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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

16. Security
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17. VPC
EC2 instances Internet
gateway DynamoDB
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18. VPC
EC2 instances
VPC
endpoint
DynamoDB
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VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB (VPC-E)

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VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB (VPC-E)
Use an IAM policy to restrict an IAM user, group, or role to a particular VPC-E for DynamoDB tables

20. Scalability Performance Security Availability & Data Protection Manageability Development Platform
• 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

21. Availability & Data Protection
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• Available in 16 regions worldwide
• Built-in replication across 3 Availability Zones

23. Manageability
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Time-to-Live (TTL)
• 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
Generally Available

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Time-to-live (TTL)
Reduced their costs by over $200K per year,
while also simplifying their application logic.
TUNE purged 85
terabytes of stale
data

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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
Generally Available

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DynamoDB
?

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Generally AvailableAWS Data Migration Service (DMS)

31. Developer Platform
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RFID
RFID
RFID Chips
DynamoDB DynamoDB Streams
US East (N. Virginia)
Real-time notification
using DynamoDB
Triggers
Text Search
RFID
TitanDB
Graph models
for patterns and
relationships
Document/Key-value
store with support for
online indexing
Connect to EMR /
Redshift for further
analysis

33. Scalability Performance Security Availability & Data Protection Manageability Development Platform
Scalability Performance Security Availability Manageability Developer
Platform• Millions of
reads/sec from
single DAX cluster
• 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)
• DMS connector for
DynamoDB
• 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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DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in public preview today
• https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-preview-form.html
VPC-E in public preview today
• https://pages.awscloud.com/VPCEndpointsPreview.html
Tagging generally available now
• Get started by enabling Tagging in the DynamoDB console
TTL generally available now
• Get started by enabling TTL in the DynamoDB console
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• DynamoDB support generally available now
• https://aws.amazon.com/dms
Go Code!

35. Thank you!