AWS databases: The foundation for data-driven and generative AI apps (DAT201)

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Introduction

  • G2 Krishnamoorthy, VP of Database Services at AWS, introduces the session and highlights the innovations AWS has worked on this year based on customer feedback.
  • They will share inspiring stories from United Airlines, NFL, and BMW on how they have built on AWS databases.
  • AWS has delivered hundreds of new capabilities, features, and services in the last year based on customer requests.

Vision for Data Analytics and AI

  • Database is a critical building block in applications, and it's part of the bigger picture of AWS's vision for data analytics and AI.
  • AWS wants to provide a "no-assembly required" experience to unlock value from all data, regardless of where it lives.
  • An example is zero-ETL, which enables near-real-time availability of application data for analytical and ML use cases with just a few clicks.

Business Continuity

  • Customers are asking for databases to be in multiple regions, always available, and with minimal impact on performance and cost.
  • AWS has built many innovations in Amazon Aurora to simplify business continuity, and they are announcing the preview of Aurora DSQL, a new serverless distributed SQL database.

Aurora DSQL

  • Aurora DSQL offers limitless scaling with no single leader, allowing the database to adapt to different application patterns dynamically.
  • It uses a microservice design with ephemeral compute, allowing independent scaling and deployment of components without customer impact.
  • Aurora DSQL uses optimistic concurrency control, enabling high performance and strong consistency even in multi-region deployments.
  • In a multi-region outage, the application can simply point to another regional endpoint, and the system will automatically heal.

DynamoDB Global Tables with Strong Consistency

  • DynamoDB global tables with strong consistency enable mission-critical applications that need read-after-write consistency in multiple regions with zero changes to application code.
  • Data is synchronously written to at least two regions, and the application can always read the latest value from any region.
  • This feature uses the same innovative multi-region journal as Aurora DSQL to achieve strong consistency.

Other Multi-Region Databases

  • AWS now offers four databases with active-active multi-region capability: Aurora DSQL, DynamoDB global tables, MemoryDB, and Keyspaces.

Customer Stories

United Airlines

  • United Airlines partnered with AWS to modernize their customer reservation systems and build an integrated end-to-end active-active data infrastructure.
  • They utilize various AWS databases, including Amazon Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB global tables, to power their critical systems.
  • The modern data infrastructure has enabled United to improve customer experience, reduce operational overhead, and prepare for future growth.

NFL

  • The NFL is using AWS technologies to revolutionize how their content creators search for play-based media assets using natural language search and generative AI.
  • They built a "Playbook Pro" chatbot that leverages Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude models, combined with Vector Search for MemoryDB, to enable fast and accurate retrieval of relevant media.

BMW

  • BMW is building a scalable, standardized, and managed AI infrastructure on AWS to power their connected vehicle platform.
  • They use various AWS databases, including DynamoDB, Neptune, and Aurora Serverless V2, to handle the massive scale of vehicle data and ensure high reliability and availability.
  • BMW is exploring the use of generative AI in their vehicles, such as predictive pre-conditioning and proactive care, to provide personalized and intelligent digital experiences.

Open Source Contributions and Cost Savings

  • AWS has made over 1,399 open-source contributions in 2024, including work on PostgreSQL collations and the creation of Valkey, an open-source replacement for Redis.
  • AWS has also announced price reductions for ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey and DynamoDB global tables, providing cost savings for customers.

Conclusion

  • Effortless is a journey, and AWS is on a path to automate the most advanced database tasks so that everyone can benefit.
  • The speaker thanks the developers who produced the features presented and the audience for attending or watching the session.

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