Amazon DynamoDB Customers

  • TMAP

    TMAP, Korea’s leading navigation service provider, faced performance and operational challenges from hardware constraints, and from applying schema changes to driving history data.

    The driver safety score workload previously stored user behavior in an on-premises Oracle RAC cluster. Further, our Oracle database version was approaching end of service, which required capex and overheard to upgrade. We migrated the driver safety workload to Amazon DynamoDB to replace Oracle. DynamoDB auto scaling dynamically modifies resources based on traffic levels, helping to maintain consistent performance at any scale with no overhead. DynamoDB enables us to apply data changes at the client level without needing to implement time consuming database maintenance. Migrating to DynamoDB freed TMAP of the costs associated with purchasing physical servers, SAN storage, and enterprise software licenses thereby lowering our costs by 43%.

    SangHun Kwon, Cloud Database Engineer, TMAP Mobility
  • Rapid7

    Rapid7, a leading provider of security data solutions, was able to increase data processing speeds by 50% for their write workloads and 33% for read workloads.

    Scaling our clusters might have taken 60 minutes in the past to get servers configured and deployed. Now, we can provision in a matter of minutes, enabling our cloud and data engineers to focus on product innovation.

    Andrew Keely, Senior Manager, Software Engineering,
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  • NTT DOCOMO, INC.

    NTT DOCOMO, INC. provides the video streaming service Lemino, which supports highly anticipated live broadcasts, such as sporting events, concerts, and reality shows. For the back end of application containers, Amazon DynamoDB successfully supported request rates exceeding tens of thousands per second across several components.

    Previously, when faced with a sudden surge in access, the connection limits became bottlenecks. For processes that needed to withstand request spikes, we adopted Amazon DynamoDB, which is fully managed.” Akio Kudou / Manager / Product Design Department Ⅰ Smart Life Business Company

    NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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  • PubNub

    PubNub, used by more than 350,000 developers as part of a modern application stack to power features that require near-real-time communication and collaboration between users, was able to focus on innovation resulting in greater staff productivity.

    Amazon DynamoDB has built-in global tables and replication that PubNub could use to offer a high level of message bus technology at a database level. By migrating to DynamoDB, the company could then provide high local performance and reliability to customers connecting across different regions.

    Jonas Gray, vice president of business and corporate development at PubNub
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  • Careem

    With more than 50 million customers across 14 countries, Careem was able to improve the agility and reliability of its ride-hailing app without causing downtime for its services.

    We’re getting locations from millions of drivers every few seconds, We needed a scalable solution for so much data, and Amazon DynamoDB was just about perfect.

    Khurram Naseem, senior director of engineering at Careem
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  • Zomato

    Zomato’s billing platform processes over 10 million events daily, issuing payments to over 350,000 restaurant partners. Previously, Zomato ran this workload on TiDB, but once their platform’s usage hit a tipping point, they began to face database throughput and latency challenges that impacted their SLAs. To minimize impact, Zomato over-provisioned their database instances to support periods of peak traffic, which lowered utilization and increased costs. Managing the durability of their system, manually synchronizing replicas, monitoring storage, and deploying version upgrades also required significant operational overhead. By migrating their billing platform from TiDB to DynamoDB, Zomato increased database throughput by 4x, reduced latency by 90%, and lowered costs by 50%, while significantly reducing operational overhead.

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  • Amazon Ads

    Amazon Ads migrated to DynamoDB and achieved up to 99.999% availability with increased developer efficiency at no additional cost. 

    Amazon Ads Measurement provides metrics that helps advertisers better understand the return on their advertising spend. Providing this critical information requires processing more than 100B events, storing over 4 petabytes of data, with peak traffic during events like Thursday Night Football and Prime Day reaching 90 million reads and 5 millions writes per second. Amazon Ads previously self-managed this workload on hundreds of Apache HBase instances. They faced challenges from time-consuming software updates, managing custom HBase code modifications, limited scale-down capabilities, and high operational overhead from dealing with hardware failures, instance type upgrades, and maintenance. This overhead led to reduced resiliency due to deploying in a single AWS Region. By migrating this service to DynamoDB global tables, Amazon Ads increased their service availability to 99.999%, reduced developer ramp-up from 3 months to 2 weeks, and reduced ticket load by 40% with no additional cost. The increased developer efficiency resulting from migrated to a fully managed service also enabled Amazon Ads to take additional charters with
    no additional developer headcount.

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  • Capcom Co., Ltd.

    Capcom is a leading gaming software company whose principle is to be a creator of entertainment culture. Their highly popular games need to scale to billions of requests, and Capcom uses Amazon DynamoDB to meet this demand with single-digit millisecond response times. With DynamoDB, Capcom benefited from its serverless ability to limitlessly scale. Capcom was able to re-allocate significant engineering resources from database operations to improve the quality of their games and accelerate development cycles.

    Jumpei Nakajima, Network Lead Engineer, Capcom Co., Ltd.
  • Game Server Services, Inc.

    Game Server Services provides solutions to help game developers monetize and realize long-term engagement with players their games. Their authentication, user management, in-game progress, inventory  management, and micro-transactions support use Amazon DynamoDB to scale to billions of requests. Game Server Services chose DynamoDB because its unbound scale helps them plan for future growth without needing to rearchitect their database as their business grows. DynamoDB's serverless architecture also lets Game Server Services run their workloads with no overhead for managing tasks associated with instance-based architectures, like version updates or scaling events. The customer can allocate their engineers to building new capabilities for their customers, which optimizes their developer efficiency.

    Kazutomo Niwa, CEO, Game Server Services, Inc.
  • Samsung Cloud

    Samsung Electronics uses Amazon DynamoDB for their petabyte-sized mobile app backups, resulting in consistent high performance and cost savings.

    Samsung Cloud provides a smooth backup, sync, restore, and upgrade experience for all your Galaxy devices. We use Amazon DynamoDB as a metadata index for the petabytes of voice recordings, notes, and contacts stored in Amazon S3. We chose DynamoDB for its fast performance, high durability, and serverless scaling. Some of our DynamoDB workloads store historical data and are used less frequently than others. We lowered our costs more than 30% by switching these workloads to DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access tables. Since there was no new code to write, and no tradeoffs for performance, durability, or scalability, we were able to make the change quickly with no impact to the customer experience.

    JeongHun Kim, Database Engineer, Samsung Cloud
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  • Zoom

    When the COVID-19 pandemic began, there was an enormous demand for our voice and video services. In early 2020, we saw unprecedented usage grow from 10M to 300M Daily Meeting Participants from new and existing customers that needed to connect virtually. On the backend, we were able to manage this surge with Amazon DynamoDB for Zoom Meetings. Using DynamoDB global tables in conjunction with on-demand mode enabled us to scale nearly infinitely with no performance issues, even with our sudden spike in usage.

    Yasin Mohammed, Engineering Manager, Cloud Operations at Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
  • Disney

    Disney+ uses Amazon DynamoDB to ingest content, metadata, and billions of customer actions each day, which enables viewers to add content to their Watch Lists, start watching a video and pick it up on a different device, and get recommendations for what to watch next.

    Billions of bookmarks ingested a day over Amazon Kinesis and into Amazon DynamoDB.

    Attilio Giue, Director of Content Discovery, Disney+
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  • Snap Inc.

    Snap Inc. saved significantly on annual infrastructure costs and enabled a fast, reliable infrastructure for multimedia messaging app Snapchat by using Amazon DynamoDB.

    The capabilities Amazon DynamoDB offers and the continued innovation within it give us confidence that we can continue relying on it and innovating on top of it.

    Saral Jain, Director of Engineering and Head of Infrastructure, Snap Inc.
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  • Dropbox

    Dropbox migrated to AWS and saved millions of dollars in expansion costs, and cut cost per user gigabyte by 5.5 times.

    When building a storage system, you have to think about components like replication, backups, and capacity management. By using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3, we simplify these problems because AWS handles many of the complex tasks.

    Jonathan Lee, Alki Team Tech Lead, Dropbox
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  • The Pokémon Company International

    The Pokémon Company migrated global configuration and time-to-live (TTL) data to Amazon DynamoDB, resulting in a 90 percent reduction in bot login attempts.

    Using the built-in TTL settings in Amazon DynamoDB, we can track when a user exceeds the maximum login attempt threshold and deny entry… The result has been a 90 percent reduction in bot login attempts, which frees up system resources for legitimate users and reduces our need to overscale.

    Jeff Webb, Development Manager, The Pokémon Company International
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  • A+E Networks

    A+E Networks migrated to AWS, and it costs them less than a latte to run their cloud-native Access app for one day on a serverless architecture that uses DynamoDB.

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  • Capital One

    Capital One uses DynamoDB to reduce latency for their mobile applications by moving their mainframe transactions to a serverless architecture for unbound scale.

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  • Mercado Libre

    Although Mercado Libre originally selected Amazon DynamoDB as a way to off-load operational overhead and support massive scale, its developers are continuing to unlock new capabilities, driving the company’s ability to innovate and continue to grow in Latin America.

    When we analyzed alternatives to our previous setup, for what we needed, Amazon DynamoDB was a clear winner for us. And we continue to get value from it by building new abstractions like secondary indexes or security capabilities.

    Oscar Mullin, Director of IT and Head of Core Services, Site Reliability Engineering, and Database Administration, Mercado Libre
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  • FanFight

    FanFight migrated its fantasy sports app to DynamoDB, allowing it to reduce costs by 50%, scale up to 1 million writes per second, and increase per-day revenue by four times.

    We are a very small team, and we don’t have any DevOps, so Amazon DynamoDB was the perfect solution for us.

    Tushar Dhara, Vice President of Technology, FanFight
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  • Caresyntax

    Caresyntax's operational analytics solution for surgical facilities uses several AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB, for managing the availability of reporting parameters.

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  • Nike

    Nike Digital migrated their large clusters of Cassandra to a fully managed Amazon DynamoDB, allowing more resources for better customer experience.

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  • PayPay Corporation

    PayPay Corporation is one of Japan's leading mobile payment applications, with more than 30 million users completing millions of cashless transactions everyday. PayPay uses Amazon DynamoDB as a fully managed and highly scalable backend database for messaging features within its app.

    We were able to deliver an in-app message box to users within two months of initial design requirements. This feature is embedded on our mobile app's home screen and delivers over 300 million messages daily, which drives a huge amount of traffic to DynamoDB. DynamoDB has been super reliable and has performed consistently, while keeping our maintenance costs low.

    Shilei Long, Senior Software Architect, PayPay Corporation
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  • Airbnb

    Airbnb uses DynamoDB to scale their operations to a global user base, while optimizing their real-time processing workflows to analyze data.

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  • Amazon

    Amazon workflow engines run on DynamoDB for millisecond response times, allowing customers to get their orders faster.

    If we were still running on the old architecture, we would have had to use 1,000 hosts running Oracle software to support this year’s Amazon Prime Day. That’s a huge number of hosts to manage and scale. Herd is a mission-critical system for Amazon, and we are extremely confident in Amazon DynamoDB as the technology on which to run it… Because of Amazon DynamoDB, we can concentrate on delivering new features for customers instead of focusing on scaling and maintaining the databases. This is really transforming Herd as a product, and it will ultimately improve things for Amazon.com customers as well.

    Mike Thomas, Software Development Manager, Amazon Herd
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  • Tinder

    Tinder migrated user data to DynamoDB with zero downtime and leveraged the scalability of DynamoDB to meet the needs of their growing global user base.

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  • GE Aerospace

    GE Aerospace rearchitected their plotting and data-query application for cost savings, scalability, and performance using Amazon DynamoDB.

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  • Lyft

    Lyft leverages the scalability of DynamoDB for multiple data stores, including a ride-tracking system that stores GPS coordinates for all rides.

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  • Redfin

    Redfin runs its business analytics operation on AWS, which allows it to innovate quickly with a small staff while managing billions of property records.

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  • Expedia Group

    Expedia built a rich, high-performance streaming system using DynamoDB to deliver fast, on-demand access to reference datasets for analytics.

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  • Comcast

    Comcast uses DynamoDB to rapidly innovate and deploy updates to their XFINITY X1 video service running on more than 20 million devices.

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  • Oath

    Oath deployed GDPR compliance for their applications globally and leveraged Amazon DynamoDB global tables to enable data synchronization.

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