- Neptune is a managed graph database in AWS
- A graph database is a database type where the relationships between the data is as important as the data itself
- Neptune runs in a VPC, private by default
- It is resilient, it can be deployed in multiple AZs and scales via read replicas
- It does continuous backups and allows point-in-time recovery
- Common use cases for graph based data models:
- Social media used databases - anything involving fluid relationships
- Fraud prevention
- Recommendation engines
- Network and IT Operations
- Biology and other life sciences