Amazon Keyspaces CDC Streams: Unlocking Real-Time Data Insights for Cassandra Applications

Amazon Keyspaces CDC streams is a new feature that captures real-time data changes in Amazon Keyspaces tables, enabling applications to track and respond to data manipulations instantly. This feature allows for advanced search capabilities, generative AI use cases, and data synchronization with data warehouses for analytics and reporting. CDC streams organize records into shards based on primary key ranges and retain records for 24 hours. The system provides two critical capabilities: each mutation record appears exactly once in the CDC stream, and records maintain the same sequence as the actual mutations based on the primary key.