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Amazon launches scalable database service for apps

Newsbrief: Amazon has launched DynamoDB, a fully-managed, cloud-based database service specifically built to adapt to the scaling issues of web applications and online games as their userbases and needs grow. Though the company has offered cloud-based databases to developers before, DynamoDB is designed to address “the core problems of database scalability, management, performance, and reliability” that can occur as an online game becomes more popular, requiring more data storage and reads/writes per second. Developers can …