RDS availability is not a backup strategy
Separate failover, read scaling, and point-in-time recovery before choosing your managed database configuration.
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From RDS and DynamoDB to Redshift and Athena. Make sense of the services, architecture, and operational decisions.
Get to know the tools.
19 technologiesAm
Amazon Athena
AWSA serverless query service for analyzing data in object storage using SQL.
Analytics & warehousesAm
Amazon Aurora
AWSAWS relational database engines compatible with MySQL or PostgreSQL interfaces.
Relational databasesAm
Amazon Data Firehose
AWSA managed service for delivering streaming data to supported destinations.
Pipelines & streamingAm
Amazon DocumentDB
AWSA managed document database with MongoDB API compatibility that requires feature-by-feature validation.
NoSQL databasesAm
Amazon DynamoDB
AWSA managed key-value and document database whose data model starts with access patterns.
NoSQL databasesAm
Amazon ElastiCache
AWSManaged caching with supported Redis OSS, Valkey, and Memcached engine options.
Caching & in-memoryAm
Amazon Keyspaces
AWSA managed database service compatible with Apache Cassandra interfaces.
NoSQL databasesAm
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
AWSA managed service for capturing and processing ordered streams within shards.
Pipelines & streamingAm
Amazon MemoryDB
AWSAn in-memory database service designed to combine low-latency access with durability.
Caching & in-memoryAm
Amazon MSK
AWSA managed Apache Kafka service for event-streaming applications.
Pipelines & streamingAm
Amazon MWAA
AWSManaged Apache Airflow environments for orchestrating workflows.
Pipelines & streamingAm
Amazon Neptune
AWSA managed graph database service for connected data and relationship queries.
Graph databasesAm
Amazon OpenSearch Service
AWSManaged OpenSearch deployments and serverless options for search and analytics.
Search enginesAm
Amazon RDS
AWSManaged relational database instances with engine-specific backups, availability, and operating choices.
Relational databasesAm
Amazon Redshift
AWSA managed analytical warehouse for SQL reporting and large-scale data analysis.
Analytics & warehousesAm
Amazon S3
AWSObject storage used for data lakes, exports, backups, and analytical files.
Lakehouses & formatsAW
AWS Database Migration Service
AWSData migration and replication between supported sources and targets.
Pipelines & streamingAW
AWS Glue
AWSData discovery, cataloging, and managed integration jobs for analytical pipelines.
Pipelines & streamingAW
AWS Lake Formation
AWSCentralized permissions and governance capabilities for AWS data lakes.
Governance & BIPut it into practice.
Guides & tutorialsDesign DynamoDB keys from the questions you need to ask
Start with one application's reads and writes, then choose partition and sort keys that make those operations direct.