Title
AWS re:Invent 2022 - Building real-time applications to utilize AWS Graviton (PRT246)
Summary
- Subbu Iyer, CEO of Aerospike, discusses the partnership between Aerospike and AWS and the importance of real-time data applications.
- Raj, from AWS, talks about EC2 products and the strong partnership with Aerospike.
- Tal from Wix.com shares their journey with Aerospike and the benefits they experienced, including improved performance and cost savings.
- Kyle from Fidelity Investments discusses how they leverage Aerospike with Snowflake for advanced analytics and the benefits of using Aerospike.
- The importance of real-time data is emphasized, with a prediction that it will constitute over 30% of all data created in the next three years.
- Aerospike's real-time data platform is introduced, highlighting its high-speed processing, high availability, strong consistency, integration capabilities, scalability, and predictable performance.
- Customer success stories are shared, showcasing significant improvements in performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions.
- The latest Aerospike release supports AWS Graviton, offering improved price performance and reduced carbon footprint.
- The session concludes with a Q&A and an announcement of Aerospike Cloud, an upcoming database as a service.
Insights
- Real-time data is growing at a rapid pace, and businesses that can leverage it effectively will have a competitive advantage.
- Aerospike's partnership with AWS has led to significant performance improvements and cost savings for customers, as evidenced by the customer stories shared.
- The integration of Aerospike with AWS Graviton processors has resulted in even better performance metrics and cost efficiency.
- The move to real-time data platforms like Aerospike can lead to simplification of infrastructure, as seen in Wix.com's case, where they consolidated their data layers and removed heavy snapshot jobs.
- Fidelity Investments' use case demonstrates the versatility of Aerospike in handling both batch and real-time data workloads, and its ease of integration with existing data platforms like Snowflake.
- The announcement of Aerospike Cloud indicates a trend towards database as a service (DBaaS) offerings, which could further simplify the deployment and management of real-time data applications for customers.