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Nethra Loganathan
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AWS Service: Amazon Neptune

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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