Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Amazon Keyspaces operates in a serverless environment, allowing you to scale your database capacity automatically and pay only for the resources you use.

It provides a Cassandra-compatible querying layer, so you can use the same Cassandra application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and tools with Amazon Keyspaces.

You can scale read and write throughput up or down without downtime or performance degradation, ensuring that your application remains highly available and responsive.

As a fully managed service, Amazon Keyspaces handles time-consuming tasks such as provisioning, patching, and backups, freeing you up to focus on building applications.

It is fully integrated with other AWS services, providing you with a comprehensive and secure managed database service environment.

Amazon Keyspaces provides automatic and continuous backups with point-in-time recovery options to protect against accidental deletions, application errors, and failures.

Data is secured with encryption at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and encryption in-transit with TLS, ensuring data is protected both on disk and over the network.

Amazon Keyspaces is ideal for handling large volumes of time-series data such as IoT sensor data, application metrics, and telemetry data. It can efficiently store, scale and retrieve time-stamped data that is written in high velocity, making it perfect for real-time analytics.

Leveraging Amazon Keyspaces allows for the quick retrieval of user preferences and interactions to deliver personalized content and recommendations in applications. Its scalable nature helps in managing the dynamic user data and provides low-latency access to data ensuring a tailored user experience.

Retailers and e-commerce platforms can take advantage of Amazon Keyspaces to manage inventory levels across multiple locations. The service allows real-time tracking of stock, facilitating a responsive supply chain and optimizing stock levels according to demand patterns.

For gaming platforms, Amazon Keyspaces can store and update real-time leaderboards, handling high volumes of write and read requests as gamers post new scores. It ensures consistent, low-latency performance which is crucial for a competitive gaming experience.

Organizations can use Amazon Keyspaces to capture, store, and analyze event logs from various applications or services. It offers easy scalability to accommodate spikes in event data and allows for the quick query and analysis of logs for monitoring or troubleshooting purposes.

Amazon Keyspaces is well-suited for session management in web and mobile applications, as it can handle large volumes of concurrent sessions with ease. Its fast read and write capabilities ensure a smooth user experience by quickly saving and retrieving session data.

Amazon Keyspaces charges for the storage space your data consumes in the AWS cloud, with a price per GB-month. This includes table data and indexes.

Data transfer in Amazon Keyspaces incurs costs when data is transferred out to the internet or to other AWS regions. Transferring data in from the internet or within the same AWS region is typically free.

With the On-Demand capacity mode for Amazon Keyspaces, you pay for the read and write throughput that you consume, measured in read/write capacity units. There are no upfront commitments, and you can scale throughput up or down automatically in response to application traffic.

The Provisioned Capacity mode allows you to specify the number of reads and writes per second that you expect your application to require. You pay for the provisioned capacity by the hour, regardless of the amount of data read or written, which can offer cost savings for predictable workloads.