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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Simple Queue Service (SQS) is very useful, easy to use, scalable and reliable.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

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We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. Going beyond Key-Value.

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