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Document history for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

The following table describes the important changes to the documentation since the last release of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra). For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

  • Latest documentation update: February 7, 2024

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Connect to Amazon Keyspaces from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

You can now follow a step-by-step tutorial to connect to Amazon Keyspaces from Amazon EKS.

February 7, 2024

Amazon Keyspaces auto scaling APIs for provisioned tables

Amazon Keyspaces now offers CQL and AWS API support for setting up auto scaling with provisioned capacity mode.

January 23, 2024

Amazon Keyspaces Multi-Region Replication support for provisioned tables

Amazon Keyspaces now supports provisioned capacity mode for multi-Region tables.

January 23, 2024

Amazon Keyspaces DML activity included in CloudTrail logs

You can now audit Amazon Keyspaces Data Manipulation Language (DML) API calls in AWS CloudTrail.

December 20, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces support for the FROZEN keyword

Amazon Keyspaces now supports the FROZEN keyword for collection data types.

November 15, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces managed policy update

Amazon Keyspaces added new permissions to the AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess managed policy to allow clients connecting to Amazon Keyspaces through interface VPC endpoints access to the Amazon EC2 instance to update the Amazon Keyspaces system.peers table with network information from the VPC.

October 3, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces managed policy update

Amazon Keyspaces created a new AmazonKeyspacesReadOnlyAccess_v2 managed policy to allow clients connecting to Amazon Keyspaces through interface VPC endpoints access to the Amazon EC2 instance to update the Amazon Keyspaces system.peers table with network information from the VPC.

September 12, 2023

Best practices for creating connections in Amazon Keyspaces

Learn how to improve and optimize client driver configurations in Amazon Keyspaces.

June 30, 2023

System keyspaces are now documented for Amazon Keyspaces

Learn what is stored in system keyspaces and how to query them for useful information in Amazon Keyspaces.

June 21, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces now supports Multi-Region Replication

Amazon Keyspaces Multi-Region Replication helps you to maintain globally distributed applications by providing you with improved fault tolerance, stability, and resilience.

June 5, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces managed policy update

Amazon Keyspaces added new permissions to the AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess managed policy to allow Amazon Keyspaces to create a service-linked role when an administrator creates a multi-Region keyspace.

June 5, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces support for the IN keyword

Amazon Keyspaces now supports the IN keyword in SELECT statements.

April 25, 2023

Cross-account access for Amazon Keyspaces and interface VPC endpoints

Learn how to implement cross-account access for Amazon Keyspaces with VPC endpoints.

April 20, 2023

Amazon Keyspaces support for client-side timestamps

Amazon Keyspaces client-side timestamps are Cassandra-compatible cell-level timestamps that help distributed applications to determine the order of write operations when different clients make changes to the same data.

March 14, 2023

Getting started with Amazon Keyspaces and interface VPC endpoints

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to connect to Amazon Keyspaces from a VPC.

March 1, 2023

Optimizing costs of Amazon Keyspaces tables

Best practices and guidance are available to help you identify strategies for optimizing costs of your existing Amazon Keyspaces tables.

February 17, 2023

The Murmur3Partitioner is now the default

The Murmur3Partitioner is now the default partitioner in Amazon Keyspaces.

November 17, 2022

Amazon Keyspaces now supports Murmur3Partitioner

The Murmur3Partitioner is now available in Amazon Keyspaces.

November 9, 2022

Support update for empty strings and blob values

Amazon Keyspaces now also supports empty strings and blob values as clustering column values.

October 19, 2022

Amazon Keyspaces is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Keyspaces is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region and is in scope for FedRAMP-High compliance. For information about available endpoints, see AWS GovCloud (US) Region FIPS endpoints.

August 4, 2022

Monitor Amazon Keyspaces table storage costs with Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon Keyspaces now helps you monitor and track table storage costs over time with the BillableTableSizeInBytes CloudWatch metric.

June 14, 2022

Amazon Keyspaces now supports Terraform

You can now use Terraform to perform data definition language (DDL) operations in Amazon Keyspaces.

June 9, 2022

Amazon Keyspaces token function support

Amazon Keyspaces now helps you optimize application queries by using the token function.

April 19, 2022

Amazon Keyspaces integration with Apache Spark

Amazon Keyspaces now helps you read and write data in Apache Spark more easily by using the open-source Spark Cassandra Connector.

April 19, 2022

Amazon Keyspaces API Reference

Amazon Keyspaces supports control plane operations to manage keyspaces and tables using the AWS SDK and AWS CLI. The API reference guide describes the supported control plane operations in detail.

March 2, 2022

How to troubleshoot common configuration issues when using Amazon Keyspaces.

Learn more about how to resolve common configuration issues you may encounter when using Amazon Keyspaces.

November 22, 2021

Amazon Keyspaces support for Time to Live (TTL).

Amazon Keyspaces Time to Live (TTL) helps you simplify your application logic and optimize the price of storage by expiring data from tables automatically.

October 18, 2021

Migrating data to Amazon Keyspaces using DSBulk.

Step-by-step tutorial for migrating data from Apache Cassandra to Amazon Keyspaces using the DataStax Bulk Loader (DSBulk).

August 9, 2021

Amazon Keyspaces support for VPC Endpoint entries in the system.peers table.

Amazon Keyspaces allows you to populate the system.peers table with available interface VPC endpoint information to improve load balancing and increase read/write throughput.

July 29, 2021

Update to IAM managed policies to support customer managed AWS KMS keys.

IAM managed policies for Amazon Keyspaces now include permissions to list and view available customer managed AWS KMS keys stored in AWS KMS.

June 1, 2021

Amazon Keyspaces support for customer managed AWS KMS keys.

Amazon Keyspaces allows you to take control of customer managed AWS KMS keys stored in AWS KMS for encryption at rest.

June 1, 2021

Amazon Keyspaces support for JSON syntax

Amazon Keyspaces helps you read and write JSON documents more easily by supporting JSON syntax for INSERT and SELECT operations.

January 21, 2021

Amazon Keyspaces support for static columns

Amazon Keyspaces now helps you update and store common data between multiple rows efficiently by using static columns.

November 9, 2020

GA release of NoSQL Workbench support for Amazon Keyspaces

NoSQL Workbench is a client-side application that helps you design and visualize nonrelational data models for Amazon Keyspaces more easily. NoSQL Workbench clients are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

October 28, 2020

Preview release of NoSQL Workbench support for Amazon Keyspaces

NoSQL Workbench is a client-side application that helps you design and visualize nonrelational data models for Amazon Keyspaces more easily. NoSQL Workbench clients are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

October 5, 2020

New code examples for programmatic access to Amazon Keyspaces

We continue to add code examples for programmatic access to Amazon Keyspaces. Samples are now available for Java, Python, Go, C#, and Perl Cassandra drivers that support Apache Cassandra version 3.11.2.

July 17, 2020

Amazon Keyspaces point-in-time recovery (PITR)

Amazon Keyspaces now offers point-in-time recovery (PITR) to help protect your tables from accidental write or delete operations by providing you continuous backups of your table data.

July 9, 2020

Amazon Keyspaces general availability

With Amazon Keyspaces, formerly known during preview as Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), you can use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) code, Apache 2.0–licensed Cassandra drivers, and developer tools that you already use today.

April 23, 2020

Amazon Keyspaces automatic scaling

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) integrates with Application Auto Scaling to help you provision throughput capacity efficiently for variable workloads in response to actual application traffic by adjusting throughput capacity automatically.

April 23, 2020

Interface virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints for Amazon Keyspaces

Amazon Keyspaces offers private communication between the service and your VPC so that network traffic doesn't leave the Amazon network.

April 16, 2020

Tag-based access policies

You can now use resource tags in IAM policies to manage access to Amazon Keyspaces.

April 8, 2020

Counter data type

Amazon Keyspaces now helps you coordinate increments and decrements to column values by using counters.

April 7, 2020

Tagging resources

Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to label and categorize resources by using tags.

March 31, 2020

AWS CloudFormation support

Amazon Keyspaces now helps you automate the creation and management of resources by using AWS CloudFormation.

March 25, 2020

Support for IAM roles and policies and SigV4 authentication

Added information on how you can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage access permissions and implement security policies for Amazon Keyspaces and how to use the authentication plugin for the DataStax Java Driver for Cassandra to programmatically access Amazon Keyspaces using IAM roles and federated identities.

March 17, 2020

Read/write capacity mode

Amazon Keyspaces now supports two read/write throughput capacity modes. The read/write capacity mode controls how you're charged for read and write throughput and how table throughput capacity is managed.

February 20, 2020

Initial release

This documentation covers the initial release of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra).

December 3, 2019