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A primary reason companies move their workloads to AWS is because of cost. With AWS, cloud migration and application modernization plans are based on your business needs and not agreements or licensing. You can acquire technology on an as-needed basis, only paying for the resources you use. You can build modern, scalable applications on AWS […]

In this post, we explore approaches that address operating Amazon Neptune in a multi-tenant SaaS environment, as well as the considerations that may influence how and when to apply these strategies depending on your tenant needs.

Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports openCypher queries over RDF graphs. When you build an application that uses a graph database such as Amazon Neptune, you’re typically faced with a technology choice at the start: There are two different types of graphs, Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs and labeled property graphs (LPGs), and your choice of […]

Amazon DynamoDB continuously sends metrics about its behavior to Amazon CloudWatch. Something I’ve heard customers ask for is how to get a count of successful requests of each operation type (for example, how many GetItem or DeleteItem calls were made) in order to better understand usage and costs. In this post, I show you how to retrieve this metric.

As businesses strive to integrate AI/ML capabilities into their customer-facing services and solutions, they often face the challenge of leveraging massive amounts of relational data hosted on on-premises SQL Server databases. This post showcases how Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and Amazon SageMaker Canvas can work together to address this challenge. By leveraging the native integration points between these managed services, you can develop integrated solutions that use existing relational database workloads to source predictive AI/ML models with minimal effort and no coding required.

Prowler for AWS provides hundreds of security configuration checks across services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElasticCache, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, and many more. In this post, we focus on these new and expanded Amazon RDS security checks, their integration with AWS Security Hub, and the benefits they offer AWS users.

To query a Neptune database in Athena, you can use the Amazon Athena Neptune connector, an AWS Lambda function that connects to the Neptune cluster and queries the graph on behalf of Athena. In this post, we provide a step-by-step implementation guide to integrate the new version of the Athena Neptune connector and query a Neptune cluster using Gremlin and SPARQL queries.

In this post, we show how you can reduce your cost by up to 75% when getting started with graph analytics workloads using the new 32 and 64 m-NCU capacities for Neptune Analytics. Many commonly used sample datasets can fit on 32 or 64 m-NCU, allowing you to work with the same data but at a lower cost. We also discuss how to monitor the graph size and resize m-NCUs without downtime.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes. These volumes are designed to support all your critical database workloads that demand high performance, high throughput, and consistently low latency. io2 Block Express volumes support 99.999% durability, up to 64 TiB storage, up to 4,000 MiB/s throughput, and up to 256,000 Provisioned IOPS for your most demanding database needs, at the same price as EBS io1 volumes. In this post, we share best practices to use the io2 Block Express volumes with RDS for SQL Server DB instances.

Schneider Electric is a leader in digital transformation in energy management and industrial automation. To effectively manage customer account hierarchies in its CRM at scale, Schneider Electric started leveraging advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) in April 2023. They created a solution to make timely updates to their customer account hierarchies in their CRM by linking customer account information to the correct parent company based on the latest information retrieved from the Internet and proprietary datasets. In this post, we explore further iterations of this project and how the team applied what they learned to the Salesforce CRM system using Amazon Aurora and Amazon Bedrock.