AWS database services Aurora, DynamoDB eye distributed apps

AWS fills in more gaps in its database and storage services to give customers better reliability across global regions, automated provisioning and cheaper data retrieval. Amazon continues to fill gaps in its AWS database services for customers with distributed systems in an increasingly competitive market among cloud providers. Updates to Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB some available now and others in the pipeline intend to address consistency issues and avoid downtime for applications spread across multiple regions. AWS also added a graph database service for workloads that use sources, such as social media streams, and brought querying capabilities to make better use of unstructured data stored on the platform.