When designing and building an application, one of the critical considerations is which database to use. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer for which database you should choose in a serverless application. A wrong decision here can cost you severely by requiring costly ongoing database maintenance or forcing sensitive data migration to another solution.

This session covers how to choose a database for your serverless application. With serverless applications, new elements are needed compared to traditional, instance-based architectures. This session will start with vital high-level characteristics that impact your choice of a serverless database. Then, we will look at a few key categories of databases to see how well they fit with the key factors we have identified.