Getting started with the Amazon QLDB console

Important

End of support notice: Existing customers will be able to use Amazon QLDB until end of support on 07/31/2025. For more details, see Migrate an Amazon QLDB Ledger to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

This tutorial guides you through steps to create your first Amazon QLDB ledger and populate it with tables and sample data. The sample ledger you create in this scenario is a database for a department of motor vehicles (DMV) application that tracks the complete historical information about vehicle registrations.

The history of an asset is a common use case for QLDB because it involves a variety of scenarios and operations that highlight the usefulness of a ledger database. With QLDB you can directly access, query, and verify the full history of changes to your data in a document-oriented database that supports SQL-like query capabilities.

As you work through this tutorial, the following topics explain how to add vehicle registrations, modify them, and view the history of changes to those registrations. This guide also shows you how to verify a registration document cryptographically, and concludes by cleaning up resources and deleting the sample ledger.

Each step in the tutorial has instructions for using the AWS Management Console.

Topics

• Tutorial prerequisites and considerations
• Step 1: Create a new ledger
• Step 2: Create tables, indexes, and sample data in a ledger
• Step 3: Query the tables in a ledger
• Step 4: Modify documents in a ledger
• Step 5: View the revision history for a document
• Step 6: Verify a document in a ledger
• Step 7 (optional): Clean up resources
• Getting started with Amazon QLDB: Next steps