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A Living Guide to Learning about Amazon Neptune

A Living Guide to Learning about Amazon Neptune

A continuously evolving map to the numerous resources for learning about Amazon Neptune

Brian O'Keefe (AWS)
Amazon Employee
Published Mar 28, 2025
Last Modified Mar 31, 2025
This post is a bit of an experiment, but I think this medium will make it work. I'm creating a self-procured list of all of the resources I think are valuable for learning about Amazon Neptune. Let me know in the comments or via LinkedIn if you think this is useful and what is missing.

Getting Started

The Amazon Neptune Learning Plan on AWS Skill Builder: 3 hour long courses -- Getting Started, Data Modeling, and Building Applications on/for Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune Documentation: user guides and API references
Neptune Demos Hub: Explore demos of common use cases for graph databases

Getting the Most out of your Neptune-powered Application

Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework for Amazon Neptune: This guide is intended for data engineers, solution architects, and data analysts who design and implement solutions that use graphs on AWS and want to align their solution with the Well-Architected Framework Pillars.
Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework for Amazon Neptune Analytics: Similar to the above, but oriented specifically for Amazon Neptune Analytics.

Building Your Knowledge

Neptune Snackables Videos: Amazon Neptune Snackables are short videos explaining graph concepts, service features and how-to's, and demos, specific to Neptune.
#GraphThat Video Series: In the #GraphThat series we take public data sets and convert them to a graph model optimized for Amazon Neptune. Customers frequently ask for assistance on modeling their data for graphs, so we hope this series will inspire you on the subject.

Design Patterns

Multi-tenancy guidance for ISVs running Amazon Neptune databases: This document provides guidance on effectively running a multi-tenant ISV application using Amazon Neptune. This guidance is based on best practices gained over years of supporting ISVs' successful delivery of SaaS solutions to their customers. Evaluating this guidance in the context of your organization's goals and architectural principles will help you find ways to optimize your solution.

Tools, Examples, and Guides from AWS GitHub Repositories:

Bookmark this page as I'll keep adding to it over time.
 

Any opinions in this post are those of the individual author and may not reflect the opinions of AWS.

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