Amazon Keyspaces

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a serverless Amazon Web Services service used to manage Apache Cassandra-compatible databases without managing servers.

Key points

  • Runs existing Cassandra workloads on AWS without making any changes to the Cassandra application code.
  • Implements the Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API, so existing CQL statements and Cassandra drivers work unchanged.
  • Eliminates operational burdens such as scaling, patching, updates, server maintenance, and provisioning.
  • High availability and durability from maintaining three copies of data across multiple Availability Zones.
  • Tables scale automatically; supports thousands of requests with single-digit-millisecond response latency.
  • Continuously backs up hundreds of terabytes of table data, with point-in-time recovery for the next 35 days.
  • Throughput capacity modes:
    • On-demand — charges applied for the reads and writes actually performed.
    • Provisioned — charges minimized by specifying the number of reads and writes per second in advance.

Pricing

  • On-demand mode — charges applied for the reads and writes performed.
  • Provisioned mode — charges minimized by specifying the number of reads and writes per second in advance.

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