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This white paper explores how AWS purpose-built databases modernize data architectures, addressing challenges like data growth, scaling, and diverse data types. It covers relational and NoSQL options, including Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, and Neptune, detailing features and use cases. The paper presents architecture patterns for financial services, IoT analytics, and gaming, showing how databases can be combined for performance. It also discusses serverless database options and benefits. Case studies from Deloitte demonstrate successful AWS database implementations in content management and clinical data processing.

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