Abstract
Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud database service that provides consistent performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on DynamoDB for its fundamental properties: consistent performance, availability, durability, and a fully managed serverless experience. In 2022, during the Amazon Prime Day shopping event, Amazon systems -- including Alexa, the Amazon.com sites, and Amazon fulfillment centers -- made trillions of API calls to DynamoDB, peaking at 105.2 million requests per second, while experiencing high availability with single-digit millisecond performance. Reliability is essential, as even the slightest disruption can significantly impact customers.
Since the launch of DynamoDB in 2012, its design and implementation have evolved in response to our experiences operating it. The system has successfully dealt with issues related to fairness, traffic imbalance across partitions, monitoring, and automated system operations without impacting availability or performance. This talk presents our experience operating DynamoDB at massive scale and how the architecture continues to evolve to meet the ever-increasing demands of customer workloads.
Speaker
Akshat Vig
Distinguished Engineer @MongoDB, Previously Senior Principal Engineer NoSQL@AWS
Akshat Vig is a Distinguished Engineer at MongoDB, where he works on some of the most difficult distributed systems problems that come with building & operating a global cloud database at scale. Previously, he spent 15 years at Amazon Web Services, where he was part of DynamoDB from its inception and launched multiple AWS database services. He has co-authored several database papers and filed nearly 100 patents. Outside of work, he’s usually running, cycling, skiing, or walking—doing his best to keep up with his family’s pace.
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Date
Wednesday Oct 26 / 10:35AM PDT ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom A
