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Region expansion

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in additional Regions

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in two new AWS Regions: Canada (Central) and Africa (Cape Town). DAX is a fully managed, highly available in-memory cache for Amazon DynamoDB that accelerates read-intensive workloads.

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in two new AWS regions: Canada (Central) and Africa (Cape Town). DAX is a fully managed, highly available in-memory cache for Amazon DynamoDB, delivering performance improvements from milliseconds to microseconds. It is API compatible with DynamoDB, allowing applications to add microsecond-latency caching. Customers can retain cache data within the region and benefit from the fully managed service.

Why it matters

A caching service that improves read performance for Amazon DynamoDB. The region expansion allows more customers to access low-latency caching capabilities.

Regions: Canada (Central), Cape Town

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