Amazon brings native real-time vector search to DynamoDB to support AI apps at scale

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of vector search to DynamoDB, the company’s high-availability NoSQL key-value and document database designed for high speed and scale.

Launched in 2021, the database service has gone through numerous iterations and is positioned today as the go-to database for developers who need predictable performance without operational overhead. It is a powerful service for serverless web and mobile apps, gaming, ad tech, internet of things, retail and applications that require low-latency access at high throughput.

Today’s announcement brings vector search with single-digit millisecond latency and 99% recall capability. It is designed to support any scale, including trillions of vectors. Developers do not need to provision, patch or manage any servers.

This update will allow the database to support large-scale applications that require semantic retrieval, including artificial intelligence applications and agentic memory, retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation engines, personalization and anomaly detection.