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Amazon Cloud Technology Innovation Promotes the Development of Cloud Native Database and Speeds up the Digital Transformation of Traditional Industries

  

In the digital era, in order to accelerate their own development and achieve further cost reduction and efficiency increase, digital transformation has become an inevitable choice for enterprises in traditional industries, and the progress is accelerating. In this process, the driving role of data in the promotion and innovation of core assets of enterprises in traditional industries has become increasingly prominent, showing the characteristics of mass and diversity, which objectively increases the difficulty for enterprises in traditional industries to store and process data.

 Chen Xiaojian, General Manager of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Product Department

At the same time, compared with cloud native enterprises such as the Internet, traditional industry enterprises face more difficult data challenges due to industry specific application needs and historical legacy data, especially in the database. According to Chen Xiaojian, the general manager of the Greater China Product Department of Amazon Cloud Technology, as the data processing center, the database is an important part of the data foundation. The traditional database used by enterprises in traditional industries has been difficult to meet the needs of digital transformation, which is reflected in:

1. Unable to expand rapidly: traditional IDC resources are limited and cannot be expanded rapidly, and the technical architecture of traditional databases such as shared storage and MPP cannot make full use of the flexibility of the cloud to give full play to the advantages of the cloud;

2. High cost: The license of commercial database also brings high cost, and requires a large amount of hardware investment and a large operation and maintenance team;

3. Slow iteration speed: tedious deployment, operation and maintenance work slows down the system iteration speed and innovation speed;

4. Unable to support global business expansion: it is not easy to expand to multiple countries and cities to cooperate with global business expansion;

5. Function/performance bottleneck: There is a bottleneck in the ability of traditional relational databases to respond to different business scenarios.

In this case, the advantages of cloud native database are highlighted, which can fully meet the needs of traditional industry enterprises for databases. Chen Xiaojian said that cloud native database can help enterprises expand their business faster, focus on innovation, and speed up the time to market of new functions. Specifically:

1. Cloud computing solves the bottleneck problems of open source databases in terms of ease of use, reliability, scalability, performance, etc. Compared with traditional commercial databases, it reduces the high cost. Through database services hosted on the cloud, users can use open source databases to achieve performance comparable to commercial databases, and the cost is usually only a fraction of that of commercial databases;

2. A specially built managed database provides the ultimate performance for enterprise workloads, especially microservices under modern application architecture. Different problems are solved by a special database;

3. Cloud databases based on massive resource pools in the cloud can be expanded flexibly and quickly according to the needs of enterprise workloads, and serverless databases take this feature to the extreme;

4. Cloud native database can use other services on the cloud, including computing, network, storage, security, big data, AI/ML, and integrate various capabilities through deep integration;

5. Enterprises can pay according to the usage, without preset resources;

6. Managed database services enable customers to focus on high-value application development, and cooperate with global business expansion with the help of global databases.

Based on this, Chen Xiaojian pointed out that "cloud native database is a must to break the inherent bottleneck, give full play to the advantages of public cloud architecture, and release the potential of data innovation." Amazon Cloud Technology has launched a number of practices on cloud native database, such as cloud native NoSQL database Amazon DynamoDB, which is not only the most representative cloud native database, It is also the first true cloud native database in the industry.

Amazon DynamoDB was officially launched in 2012. Over the past ten years, Amazon Cloud Technology has continuously improved it, involving the underlying availability, persistence, security, scale and other features, which has improved the service performance of Amazon DynamoDB. Chen Xiaojian said that Amazon DynamoDB has now served many customers around the world, including Amazon itself.

At the same time, Amazon Cloud Technology has been promoting the iteration and development of cloud database services through continuous innovation. At present, it has launched 15 specially built cloud hosted database services. In addition to NoSQL databases, there are also SQL database types such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, which meet the data needs of different industries, For example, enabling the automobile industry to process massive and diversified data; Enabling the manufacturing industry to release the value of data in different life cycles and gain data insight; Empowering the financial industry to strengthen risk control and expand global business has accelerated the digital transformation of traditional industries.

Amazon Cloud Technology's cloud native database has also been widely recognized by the market. According to Gartner's 2021 global database management system (DBMS) market report, Amazon Cloud Technology's share in the global database market will grow from 20.6% in 2020 to 23.9% in 2021, ranking second in the global database segment, with a growth rate of 42.3%, Almost double the market growth.

Wang Weiling, research director of iResearch Consulting, said: "Cloud native database will become one of the important trends of future databases. In the research and interviews, it was found that many enterprises, despite their concerns and practical difficulties, are also willing to try cloud native database. Public cloud manufacturers, represented by Amazon Cloud Technology, provide rich cloud native databases so that enterprises can collect and use data with ease and focus on core businesses. If we consider that the cloud also provides services such as machine learning model building, the number of users will become simpler. "

Chen Xiaojian said, "As data is the core asset of enterprises and the main driving force of innovation, enterprises need to take the lead in consolidating the new infrastructure of database to lay a solid foundation for digital transformation. As a leader in the field of cloud computing, Amazon Cloud Technology continues to promote the innovation of cloud services, and is also actively exploring the combination of public cloud architecture and database evolution, hoping to help enterprises in various industries launch an innovation journey on the cloud through the innovation of cloud native database services. "