Category: Amazon DynamoDB

January 2025: The calculations in this post have been updated following DynamoDB’s 50% reduction in on-demand throughput pricing. Refer to New – Amazon DynamoDB lowers pricing for on-demand throughput and global tables to learn more. Your Amazon DynamoDB table might store millions, billions, or even trillions of items. If you ever need to perform a […]

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Over the last few years, organizations have started adopting a cloud first strategy, and we are seeing enterprises migrate their mission-critical applications, along with their data platforms, to the cloud. Occasionally, organizations need guidance in selecting the right service and solution in the cloud, along with an approach to assist with the migration. In this […]

One of the most important questions when discussing databases is “How will we backup and restore our data?” Backups are a central component of any disaster recovery strategy and are primarily governed by your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). You want to make sure your backup strategy supports your needs with […]

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Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. DynamoDB offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-Region replication, 99.999% availability SLA, and data import and export tools. DynamoDB was built working backward from the needs of external customers and internally at Amazon.com to overcome the scale and […]

Regular backups are a key component of designing business-critical applications to be resilient in the event of any failure situation. They provide many benefits, the most important being data protection, more efficient recovery of data in the event of disruptions, compliance with organization and legal requirements, and simplified maintenance. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) for DynamoDB provides […]

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Amazon DynamoDB supports transactions to give atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID), helping you maintain data consistency in your workloads. A database transaction is a sequence of multiple operations that are performed on one or more tables. These sequences of multiple operations represent a unit of work that is committed to the tables or rolled […]

Amazon DynamoDB allows you to store JSON objects into attributes and perform many operations on these objects, including filtering, updating, and deleting. This is a very powerful capability because it allows applications to store objects (JSON data, arrays) directly into DynamoDB tables, and still retain the ability to use nested attributes within these objects in […]