SimpleDB Alternatives (September 2025)

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is MongoDB compatible.

Amazon MemoryDB is a Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Amazon Neptune is a fast, fully managed database service powering graph use cases such as identity graphs, knowledge graphs, and fraud detection.

Learn more about Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra compatible database service.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

NoSQL Database can be run in the cloud or on-premises for applications that require either flexible data models, workloads, demanding predictable, lighting fast access to data or easy to use APIs.

Azure Table storage provides a NoSQL key-value store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets. Get started today.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

Amazon API Gateway helps you build HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs with a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, manage, monitor, and secure APIs.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

Accelerate application development with 100% serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Get 250,000 API requests free per month for 12 months.

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Unlock fast and scalable search, monitoring, and analysis for log analytics and website search by deploying and running OpenSearch and ALv2 Elasticsearch.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

Small, fast, reliable database management system Persistent and/or in-memory data storage for edge-cloud, powerful for professional developers

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to make heterogeneous database migrations predictable. Learn more about the supported conversions and how to download today.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

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AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

Datastore is a highly scalable NoSQL database for your web and mobile applications.

Store and sync data with our NoSQL cloud database. Data is synced across all clients in realtime, and remains available when your app goes offline.

Our NoSQL Object Database manages data without the need for mapping code to store & retrieve objects in Java & C++ applications.

Amazon SNS is a managed messaging service for communication, allowing messaging between decoupled microservices applications or directly to users with SMS texts, mobile push, and email.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

High-speed & lightweight database solution which securly stores your data privatly on-device and syncs it seamless to millions of devices

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discover the most up-to-date locations of its resources.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics helps you easily build Apache Flink apps, streaming Java apps, and real-time SQL queries to get real-time analytics, clickstream analytics, log analytics, event analytics, and iot analytics.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Backblaze B2 provides unlimited data storage in the cloud at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Cloudera Operational Database is a cloud-native service that speeds up, automates, and simplifies the development and deployment of mission-critical applications.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service for running code without having to provision or manage servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

AWS IoT Analytics makes it simple to run and operationalize analytics on massive volumes of IoT data, without the cost and complexity of building an IoT analytics platform.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development. Start building applications with a free trial.

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

AWS IoT SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale.

Implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) that scales to millions of users with Amazon Cognito, fully managed authentication service.

AWS CodeCommit is a managed source control repository that makes it easier for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest.

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases provides developers with fast, reliable, local persistence with zero administration. Often deployed as an 'edge' database, Oracle Berkeley DB provides very high performance, reliability, scalability, and availability for application use cases that do not require SQL

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

There is no other place where customers can find data files, data tables, and data APIs from a vast portfolio of third-party data sets. We continuously innovate to make the world's third-party data easy to find in one data catalog.

Collect streaming data, create a real-time data pipeline, and analyze real-time video and data streams, log analytics, event analytics, and IoT analytics.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

VelocityDB is an easy to use, extremely high performance, scalable, embeddable and distributable object database system with indexes for C# .NET applications with a small footprint (~ 600KB).

AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS cloud costs and usage over time.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT managers, and product owners.

An in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution that lets your applications access, process, and analyze data.

Amazon GameLift provides reliable and scalable game server hosting to easily deploy and manage game servers while focusing on creating engaging gameplay.

ScyllaDB is the distributed database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency.

Easily develop rich applications using a fully managed, scalable, and serverless document database.

Learn how AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides you with logs of key usage to help you meet your regulatory and compliance needs.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

Amazon Personalize is an ML service that helps developers quickly build and deploy a custom recommendation engine with real-time personalization and user segmentation.

ScaleGrid makes it easy to deploy database hosting for MySQL™, PostgreSQL®, Redis®, MongoDB®, and, Greenplum Database® on every major cloud. Try it for free!

MongoDB Atlas is the only multi-cloud developer data platform that accelerates and simplifies how you build with data. Get started for free today!

AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, avoid downtime during application deployment, and handle the complexity of updating your applications.

Fauna combines the relational power, strong consistency, and schema capabilities of a relational database with the flexibility and scalability of documents, all delivered as a Cloud API with zero engineering operations.

AWS Step Functions lets you orchestrate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so that you can build and update applications quickly.

Get your ideas to market faster with a developer data platform built on the leading modern database. MongoDB makes working with data easy.

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

Build apps faster and scale automatically on Azure SQL Database, the intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database.

AWS Graviton processors deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads, optimized for a range of general-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-intensive workloads.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service. Enables to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency.

NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details at the new GitHub […]

SQLyog Ultimate is the best MySQL GUI for database developers. Compare and synchronize data, manage SQL queries, and keep your database safe.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that monitors for malicious activity and anomalous behavior to protect AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Accelerate your full-stack web and mobile app development with AWS Amplify. Easy to start, easy to scale. No cloud expertise needed.

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.

Securely manage your access and permissions to SQL, NoSQL, and Cloud databases with DBHawk, the all-in-one data platform by Datasparc.

MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Native and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.