Amazon DynamoDB

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What job does it solve?

Known key-based access patterns need managed horizontal scale.

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Where does it stop?

The workload depends on joins, ad hoc relational queries, or access patterns not supported by the key design.

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Closely related services

• Amazon RDSManaged relational database engines with automated infrastructure operations.
• DynamoDB AcceleratorA managed in-memory cache built specifically for DynamoDB-compatible reads.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 07Choose the right private connection
• Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
• Lesson 21Database access patterns, types, and capacity models
• Lesson 23Database caching, invalidation, and source-of-truth boundaries
• Lesson 41Database type, capacity, and cache economics

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