This is a guest post co-written with Mateus Ribeiro de Castro and Tiaraju Smaneoto from VTEX. VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the enterprise digital commerce platform where forward-thinking CEOs and CIOs smarten up their investments. Our composable and complete platform helps brands and retailers modernize their stack and reduce maintenance costs by rapidly migrating from legacy systems, connecting their entire value chain, and making inventory and fulfillment their strength. In this post, we discuss one of our most recent systems modernization using AWS, which aimed to improve shopping cart latency and ..read more

Financial services customers have mission critical use cases for payments, securities, loan origination, and other workloads that require highly available, secure, and scalable architectures. Delivering these requirements becomes challenging for application owners due to the complexity of maintaining large databases. Scaling infrastructure for increasing storage or throughput may require sharding your database across multiple instances. Maintaining business continuity can involve error prone processes such as log shipping or live replication to separate AZs and Regions. Recurring maintenances ..read more

Amazon Robotics (AR) designs advanced robotic solutions so the Amazon fulfillment network can meet delivery promises for millions of customers every day. AR builds critical software that controls over a half a million mobile robots used in hundreds of Amazon sites spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With a focus on engineering efficiency, the AR Movement Sciences and Scheduling (MOSS) team turned to Amazon DynamoDB to store millions of real-time work requests that orchestrate mobile robot motion. In this post, we discuss how the MOSS team migrated from a self-managed database ..read more

Okta is an identity and access management company. It has established itself as a key player in the digital security landscape. The Okta cloud platform powers thousands of businesses and applications worldwide and offers access management solutions for both workforce and customer identity use cases. The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) provides robust access management solutions, such as Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) to power customer-facing applications and websites. FGA is a multi-Region software as a service (SaaS) offering for flexible, fine-grained authorization at any scale. It’s ba ..read more

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Customers increasingly use workload isolation strategies to minimize security threats and to ease the complexity of compliance demands for their DynamoDB-backed workloads. Implementing workload isolation strategies often requires cross-account and cross-Region access to DynamoDB resources using IAM identity-based policies, which increases management and application complexity. Customers regularly ask us to simplify resource access control, especially for ..read more

Developers want to perform bulk updates to modify items in their Amazon DynamoDB tables. Reasons for performing bulk updates can include: Adding or updating attributes – backfilling a Time to Live (TTL) value or populating an attribute to support a new access pattern or global secondary index (GSI). For example, enriching existing data with new attributes from another dataset such as a Machine Learning model that provides personalization data. A common use case is an insurance company finding all items with a specific policy type and updating them due to regulatory changes. Proactively locati ..read more

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a multi-Region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. Customers can access DynamoDB from their VPC or from workloads that run on-premises with gateway endpoints. For on-premises private network connectivity to gateway endpoints, customers often set up proxy servers or firewall rules to route and restrict traffic to DynamoDB, as gateway endpoints are not compatible with AWS ..read more

Amazon DynamoDB offers high scalability and performance for applications with varying workloads. While DynamoDB excels at efficiently distributing data across multiple partitions, it inherently follows a specific sorting order based on the schema selected. In this post, we show two example data models, one designed to store e-commerce order information and one to store game scores. We use these data models to explore how DynamoDB naturally arranges items and delve into effective strategies for establishing customized ordering. Before we examine the details, it’s essential to understand the sig ..read more

With the evolution of microservice-based architectures, organizations are increasingly adopting purpose-built databases. Occasionally, businesses need guidance on which cloud service and solutions are best for them, as well as a plan for helping with the migration. When performing heterogeneous database migrations, you might encounter problems with attribute patterns on NoSQL compared to traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) like restructuring traditional table and column attributes from your self-managed SQL Server to Amazon DynamoDB access patterns. The key motivation fo ..read more

This post is co-authored with Neha Gupta & Kanica Mandhania from Zomato. Zomato, an India-based restaurant aggregator, food delivery, and dining-out company, operates in over 1,000 cities and lists more than 350,000 restaurants. Since its inception in 2008, Zomato has grown tremendously, both in scope and scale—and has emerged as the leading market player in India’s food tech industry. As the demand for online food ordering continues to grow, Zomato recognizes the importance of innovation in meeting scalability requirements. Considering the nature of our business, customer traffic is prima ..read more