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# Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
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 [Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)](https://aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/) (Amazon Keyspaces) is a fully managed, Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. Some key features of Amazon Keyspaces include: 
+  **Apache Cassandra compatibility** ‑— Full compatibility with Cassandra, allowing you to use your existing Cassandra applications and tools with minimal changes. 
+  **Scalability** — Designed to handle millions of requests per second and terabytes of data, making it suitable for high-scale applications. 
+ **Serverless** — Instead of deploying, managing, and maintaining storage and compute resources for your workload through nodes in a cluster, Amazon Keyspaces allocates storage and read/write throughput resources directly to tables.
+  **Global distribution** — Supports global distribution of data, allowing you to store and access data from multiple Regions, reducing latency and improving application performance. 
+  **Monitoring and management** — Provides an easy-to-use, web-based console for monitoring and managing your database, as well as integration with [Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/) for metrics and alerts. 
+  **Integration with other AWS services** — Integration with other AWS services such as Amazon S3, [Amazon Redshift](https://aws.amazon.com/pm/redshift), and [Amazon EMR](https://aws.amazon.com/emr/), making it easy to build data-driven applications. 
+  **Highly available and secure** — Data is replicated automatically across multiple AWS Availability Zones using a replication factor of three. Amazon Keyspaces encrypts all customer data at rest by default, and is integrated with AWS IAM to help you manage access to your tables and data.