Service Overview
Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service designed for applications that work with highly connected data such as social networks, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.
It supports popular graph models like Property Graph and RDF.
Key Features
Fully managed and highly available
Supports Gremlin and SPARQL query languages
Optimized for graph workloads
Automatic backups and replication
Secure with encryption at rest and in transit
Scales to billions of relationships
AWS Category / Cloud Domain
Category: Database
Cloud Domain: Database as a Service (DBaaS)
Where It Fits in Cloud / DevOps Lifecycle
Develop: Build graph-based applications
Deploy: Managed database deployment
Operate: AWS handles scaling, backups, and patching
Scale: Automatically scales with workload
Used in DevOps for data-driven, real-time applications.
Programming Language / Access Methods
Query Languages:
Gremlin
SPARQL
Access Methods:
AWS Management Console
AWS CLI
AWS SDKs (Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.)
Pricing Model
➡ Pay-as-you-go
➡ Charged based on:
➡ Instance hours
➡ Storage used
➡ I/O operations
➡ Data transfer
➡ No upfront cost
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