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Choosing the Right DynamoDB Partition Key

September 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. This blog post covers important considerations and strategies for choosing the right partition key for designing a schema that uses Amazon DynamoDB. Choosing the right partition key is an important step in the design and building of scalable and reliable applications on top of DynamoDB. […]

Configuring the AWS Schema Conversion Tool

May 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) is a project-style Java application that can be installed on a local computer or an Amazon EC2 instance. The tool can be downloaded from AWS and is supported on MS Windows, Mac OSX, and Ubuntu and Fedora Linux. […]