Highly availability - 99.99%Read replication over multiple locationsPoint-in-time recoveryContinuous backup to Amazon S3On the security front, Neptune provides supports complete encryption of stored data and also duringthe time of transition. It supports network isolation through Amazon VPC.Infrastructure wise, It is a fully managed w.r.t setup, backup, hardware provisioning, configuration,and software patching.Neptune storage is SSD- backed and virtualized. It is built to be fault tolerant, self-healing andbackground repaired. Detection and recovery from crashes and failover to replicas is automated.Where is it Used?Amazon Neptune has use cases similar to that of standard Graph Databases such as Neo4j andMarkLogic. What sets it apart is, being a fully managed, highly available cloud database.Few of the use cases include:Fraud DetectionRecommendation EngineNetwork OperationsLife SciencesKnowledge graphsGraph Over RelationalGraph databases in certain use cases like Social Networking and fraud detection outperform RDBMS.In cases where, relationships between data surpass the actual entries of data, and when therelationships are equally important, Graph Databases are preferred over RDBMS.
