Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of vector search in Amazon DynamoDB. You can now store vector embeddings alongside your operational data in DynamoDB and run similarity searches directly against that data, without replicating it to a separate vector store. DynamoDB supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall, and is designed…

Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale

By Dustin Ward

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and…