Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) is available in five additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore), bringing the total number of supported Regions to 15. You can now create an MRSC global table in any three-Region configuration across the 15 supported AWS Regions, configured with either three replicas or two replicas and one witness Region. This includes configurations that span North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. MRSC lets you build highly available multi-Region applications with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero. By choosing replica Regions closer to your users in more geographies, you can route applications to nearby DynamoDB endpoints for strongly consistent reads while keeping your application available during Regional impairments. MRSC is ideal for global applications with strict consistency requirements, such as user profile management, inventory tracking, order state, and entitlement management. To get started and view the complete list of supported Regions and configuration options, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/V2globaltables_HowItWorks.html#V2globaltables_HowItWorks.consistency-modes.mrsc. To learn more about building resilient multi-Region applications, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/V2globaltables.tutorial.html#create-gt-mrsc.

Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) is available in five additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore), bringing the total number of supported Regions to 15. You can now create an MRSC global table in any three-Region configuration across the 15 supported AWS Regions, configured with either three replicas or two replicas and one witness Region. This includes configurations that span North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. MRSC lets you build highly available multi-Region applications with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero. By choosing replica Regions closer to your users in more geographies, you can route applications to nearby DynamoDB endpoints for strongly consistent reads while keeping your application available during Regional impairments. MRSC is ideal for global applications with strict consistency requirements, such as user profile management, inventory tracking, order state, and entitlement management. To get started and view the complete list of supported Regions and configuration options, see the DynamoDB Developer Guide. To learn more about building resilient multi-Region applications, visit the DynamoDB global tables page.

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB.  Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications, break data silos in your organization, and gain significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. Now you can run enhanced analysis on your DynamoDB data with the rich capabilities of Amazon Redshift, such as high performance SQL, built-in ML and Spark integrations, materialized views with automatic and incremental refresh, and data sharing. Additionally, you can use history mode to easily run advanced analytics on historical data, build lookback reports, and build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from DynamoDB, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code. The Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei), in addition to previously supported regions. For a complete list of supported regions, please refer to the AWS Region Table where Amazon Redshift is available. To learn more, visit the getting started guides for DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift. For more information on using history mode, we encourage you to visit our recent blog post here.

Amazon DynamoDB now offers multi-Region strong consistency capability for global tables, providing the highest level of application resilience and enabling your applications to be always available.

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Amazon DynamoDB now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) when connecting to DynamoDB tables, streams, and DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), including with AWS PrivateLink Gateway and Interface endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack and meet compliance requirements by using a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude and customers no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can standardize their applications on the new version of Internet Protocol by moving to IPv6 with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Support for IPv6 in Amazon DynamoDB is now available in all commercial AWS Regions in the United States and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. It will deploy to the remaining global AWS Regions where Amazon DynamoDB is available over the next few weeks. To connect to DynamoDB using IPv6 addresses and check regional availability, please see the DynamoDB developer guide and the DynamoDB Accelerator user guide.

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Amazon DynamoDB now offers multi-Region strong consistency capability for global tables, providing the highest level of application resilience and enabling your applications to be always available.

Today, AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, enabling you to create and connect to an AWS database directly from Vercel in seconds. To get started, you can create a new AWS Account from Vercel that includes access to the three databases and $100 USD in credits. These credits can be used with any of these database option for up to six months. Once your account is set up, you can have a production-ready Aurora database or DynamoDB table powering your Vercel projects within seconds. You can also manage your plan, add payment information, and view usage details anytime by visiting the AWS settings portal from the Vercel dashboard. To learn more, visit the https://vercel.com/marketplace/aws on the Vercel Marketplace. The integration includes serverless options for https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/, https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/, and https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/?nc2=type_a to simplify your application needs and reduce costs by scaling to zero when not in use. You can create a database in the following https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) with more Regions coming soon. AWS Databases deliver security, reliability, and price performance without the operational overhead, whether you're prototyping your next big idea or running production AI and data driven applications. For more information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/

Amazon DynamoDB now supports primary keys composed of up to eight attributes in global secondary indexes (GSIs). While previously, partition and sort keys were limited to one attribute each, DynamoDB now supports up to four attributes each for the partition and sort keys. With multi-attribute keys, you no longer need to manually concatenate values into synthetic keys, which sometimes result in the need to backfill data before adding new indexes. Instead, you can create primary keys using up to eight existing attributes, making it easier to model diverse access patterns and adapt to new query requirements. Multi-attribute partition keys improve data distribution and uniqueness. Multi-attribute sort keys enable flexible querying by letting you specify conditions on sort key attributes from left to right. For example, an index with partition key UserId and sort key attributes Country, State, and City lets you query all locations for a user, then narrow results by Country, State, or City. Multi-attribute partition and sort keys are available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions where DynamoDB is available. You can create them using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or DynamoDB API. To learn more, see Global Secondary Indexes in the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Starting today, we have made Amazon DynamoDB even more cost-effective by reducing prices for on-demand throughput by 50% and global tables by up to 67%. DynamoDB on-demand mode offers a truly serverless experience with pay-per-request pricing and automatic scaling without the need for capacity planning. Many customers prefer the simplicity of on-demand mode to build modern, serverless applications that can start small and scale to millions of requests per second. While on-demand was previously cost effective for spiky workloads, with this pricing change, most provisioned capacity workloads on DynamoDB will achieve a lower price with on-demand mode. This pricing change is transformative as it makes on-demand the default and recommended mode for most DynamoDB workloads. Global tables provide a fully managed, multi-active, multi-Region data replication solution that delivers increased resiliency, improved business continuity, and 99.999% availability for globally distributed applications at any scale. DynamoDB has reduced pricing for multi-Region replicated writes to match the pricing of single-Region writes, simplifying cost modeling for multi-Region applications. For on-demand tables, this price change lowers replicated write pricing by 67%, and for tables using provisioned capacity, replicated write pricing has been reduced by 33%. These pricing changes are already in effect, in all AWS Regions, starting November 1, 2024 and will be automatically reflected in your AWS bill. To learn more about the new price reductions, see the AWS Database Blog, or visit the Amazon DynamoDB Pricing page.

Today, AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, enabling you to create and connect to an AWS database directly from Vercel in seconds. To get started, you can create a new AWS Account from Vercel that includes access to the three databases and $100 USD in credits. These credits can be used with any of these database option for up to six months. Once your account is set up, you can have a production-ready Aurora database or DynamoDB table powering your Vercel projects within seconds. You can also manage your plan, add payment information, and view usage details anytime by visiting the AWS settings portal from the Vercel dashboard. To learn more, visit the AWS landing page on the Vercel Marketplace. The integration includes serverless options for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB to simplify your application needs and reduce costs by scaling to zero when not in use. You can create a database in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) with more Regions coming soon. AWS Databases deliver security, reliability, and price performance without the operational overhead, whether you're prototyping your next big idea or running production AI and data driven applications. For more information, visit the AWS Databases webpage.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB serverless databases are now available on v0 by Vercel, an AI-powered tool that transforms your ideas into production-ready, full-stack web applications in minutes. With this launch, you can build your ideas as well as create and connect to AWS databases from v0 using natural language prompts. To get started, simply describe what you want to build in v0. The tool takes care of developing the frontend user interface and backend logic, storing your application data in the AWS database that best meets your application needs. v0 provides an end-to-end setup experience where you can choose and configure database resources under a new AWS account or link to an existing account, all without leaving v0 interface. New AWS accounts from Vercel include access to all three databases and $100 USD in credits that can be used with any of the database options for up to six months. You can also manage your plan, add payment information, and view usage details anytime by visiting the AWS settings portal from the Vercel dashboard. To learn more, visit v0 or the AWS landing page on the Vercel Marketplace. The serverless options for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB do not require infrastructure management and reduce costs by scaling down to zero automatically when not in use. You can create a database in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). AWS Databases deliver security, reliability, and price performance without the operational overhead, whether you're prototyping your next big idea or running production AI and data driven applications. For more information, visit the AWS Databases webpage.

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Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for all available Amazon DynamoDB Streams Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in US and Canada commercial AWS Regions. With this launch, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints instead of connecting over the public internet, helping you meet your organization's business, compliance, and regulatory requirements to limit public internet connectivity. Amazon DynamoDB Streams support for AWS PrivateLink FIPs endpoints is available with Amazon DynamoDB Streams in the US and Canada commercial AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). To learn more about Amazon DynamoDB Streams support for AWS PrivateLink FIPs endpoints, visit the Amazon DynamoDB Stream documentation. For more information about AWS PrivateLink and its benefits, visit the AWS PrivateLink product page.

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Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for all available Amazon DynamoDB Streams Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in US and Canada commercial AWS Regions. With this launch, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints instead of connecting over the public internet, helping you meet your organization's business, compliance, and regulatory requirements to limit public internet connectivity. Amazon DynamoDB Streams support for AWS PrivateLink FIPs endpoints is available with Amazon DynamoDB Streams in the US and Canada commercial AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). To learn more about Amazon DynamoDB Streams support for AWS PrivateLink FIPs endpoints, visit thehttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/privatelink-streams.html. For more information about AWS PrivateLink and its benefits, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/privatelink/. 

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to securely access DAX management APIs such as CreateCluster, DescribeClusters, and DeleteCluster over private IP addresses within your virtual private cloud (VPC). DAX clusters already run inside your VPC, and all data plane operations like GetItem and Query are handled privately within the VPC. With this launch, you can now perform cluster management operations privately, without connecting to the public regional endpoint. With AWS PrivateLink, you can simplify private network connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), DAX, and your on-premises data centers using interface VPC endpoints and private IP addresses. It helps you meet compliance regulations and eliminates the need to use public IP addresses, configure firewall rules, or configure an Internet gateway to access DAX from your on-premises data centers. AWS PrivateLink for DAX is available in all Regions where DAX is available today. For information about DAX Regional availability, see the “Service endpoints” section in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ddb.html. There is an additional cost to use the feature. Please see https://aws.amazon.com/privatelink/pricing/ for more details. To get started with DAX and PrivateLink, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/dax-private-link.html.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports a new warm throughput value and the ability to easily pre-warm DynamoDB tables and indexes. The warm throughput value provides visibility into the number of read and write operations your DynamoDB tables can readily handle, while pre-warming let’s you proactively increase the value to meet future traffic demands. DynamoDB automatically scales to support workloads of virtually any size. However, when you have peak events like product launches or shopping events, request rates can surge 10x or even 100x in a short period of time. You can now check your tables’ warm throughput value to assess if your table can handle large traffic spikes for peak events. If you expect an upcoming peak event to exceed the current warm throughput value for a given table, you can pre-warm that table in advance of the peak event to ensure it scales instantly to meet demand. Warm throughput values are available for all provisioned and on-demand tables and indexes at no cost. Pre-warming your table's throughput incurs a charge. See Amazon DynamoDB Pricing page for pricing details. This capability is now available in all AWS commercial Regions. See the Developer Guide to learn more.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports a configurable period for point-in-time-recovery (PITR). You can specify the duration for data recoverability using PITR on a per-table basis, ranging from 1 to 35 days. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) protects your DynamoDB data from accidental writes and deletes, allowing you to restore your data to any second within your recovery period. With this launch, a configurable backup recovery period can help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements that necessitate shorter data recovery periods. Point-in-time-recovery is now configurable in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. You pay based on the table size that has point-in-time-recovery enabled. For details on pricing, see the DynamoDB pricing page. To get started, see the DynamoDB developer guide.

AWS Glue zero-ETL now supports configurable change data capture (CDC) refresh intervals and on-demand data ingestion for integrations with Amazon DynamoDB as the source. This enhancement can help you to customize how frequently data changes are captured from your Amazon DynamoDB tables, with refresh intervals ranging from 15 minutes to 6 days, and trigger immediate data ingestion when needed. These capabilities bring zero-ETL integrations from Amazon DynamoDB sources to feature parity with zero-ETL integrations from SaaS sources, like Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow, ensuring consistent functionality across different source types. With configurable CDC refresh intervals, you can optimize your data pipeline performance by adjusting the frequency of change capture to match your specific business requirements—whether you need near real-time updates every 15 minutes or can work with longer intervals up to 6 days to reduce costs. The on-demand ingestion capability allows you to immediately capture critical data changes without waiting for the next scheduled CDC interval. This functionality is ideal for scenarios that require data to be immediately available for analytics, reporting, or downstream applications and helps strike a balance between data freshness requirements and operational efficiency. These features are available today in all AWS regions where AWS Glue zero-ETL is supported. To get started with configuring CDC refresh intervals and on-demand ingestion for your Amazon DynamoDB integrations, see the AWS Glue User Guide. To learn more about AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations, visit the AWS Glue documentation.

Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) now supports application resiliency testing with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve application performance, observability, and resilience. With this launch, you can create real-world failure scenarios to MRSC global tables, such as during regional failures, enabling you to observe how your applications respond to these disruptions and validate your resilience mechanisms. MRSC global tables replicate your DynamoDB tables automatically across your choice of AWS Regions to achieve fast, strongly consistent read and write performance, providing you 99.999% availability, increased application resiliency, and improved business continuity. FIS is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. You can use the new FIS action to observe how their application responds to a pause in regional replication and tune their monitoring and recovery process to improve resiliency and application availability. MRSC global tables support for FIS is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Paris). To get started, visit the DynamoDB FIS actions documentation.