Case Study: Rapid7 achieves 40% lower latency with Amazon Web Services’ Amazon DynamoDB

Rapid7 Reduced Operational Latency by 40% by adopting Amazon DynamoDB

Rapid7, a cybersecurity company behind the InsightIDR SaaS platform, needed a highly scalable, low-maintenance database to support growing customer demand and replace its self-managed Cassandra clusters. The company was also struggling with operational overhead, costly maintenance, and slow scaling for its real-time data processing pipeline, so it turned to Amazon Web Services and Amazon DynamoDB.

Amazon Web Services helped Rapid7 migrate to Amazon DynamoDB with near zero downtime by using dual writes, endurance testing, and monitoring with CloudWatch Contributor Insights. The move delivered major gains: 40% lower application latency, 60 engineering hours saved per week, up to 99.999% availability, and faster scaling from weeks to minutes, with additional improvements of 50% in write throughput and 33% in read performance.

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Andrew Keely

Senior Manager Software