Tag: DynamoDB

When using a NoSQL database such as Amazon DynamoDB, I tend to make different optimization choices than what I am accustomed to with relational databases. At the beginning, it was not easy for me, because my relational database experience was telling me to do things differently. To help with that, AWS released NoSQL Workbench for […]

November 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. This post reviews what solutions exist today for ingesting data into Amazon DynamoDB. It also presents a streamlined solution for bulk ingestion of CSV files into a DynamoDB table from an Amazon S3 bucket and provides an AWS CloudFormation template of the solution for easy deployment into your AWS […]

This is a guest post by Keisuke Utsumi, a Software Engineer with TVer Technologies Inc. In their own words, “TVer Technologies Inc. offers interactive entertainment services to users using a synchronized website with a TV broadcast.” TVer Technologies Inc. provides website and app-based interactive content for TV viewers in Japan. Many of our applications use […]

Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore provides simple, fully automated features to create continuous and on-demand backups of your DynamoDB tables and then restore data from those backups. With point-in-time recovery (PITR), you can create continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. DynamoDB can back up your data with per-second granularity and restore to any given second […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed service that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is fully managed, highly available through behind-the-scene Multi-AZ data replication, supports native write-through caching with Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) as well as multiple global secondary indexes. Developers can interact with DynamoDB using the AWS SDK in a rich set […]

As the new year begins, we encourage you to make a resolution to follow Amazon DynamoDB best practices. Following these best practices can help you maximize performance and minimize throughput costs when working with DynamoDB. Click the following links to learn more about each best practice in the DynamoDB documentation. Design and use partition keys […]

The following 20 pages were the most viewed Amazon DynamoDB documentation pages in 2019. I have included a brief description with each link to explain what each page covers. Use this list to see what other AWS customers have been viewing and perhaps to pique your own interest in a topic you’ve been meaning to explore. […]

This blog post includes links to videos and slide decks of the keynotes and Amazon DynamoDB–related sessions from AWS re:Invent 2019. Video recordings were not made of workshops, chalk talks, and builders sessions. As of the publication of this post, not all of the slide decks are available for download, but we will update this […]

Last updated: December 17, 2019 2019 has been another busy year for Amazon DynamoDB. We have released new and updated features that focus on making your experience with the service better than ever in terms of reliability, encryption, speed, scale, and flexibility. The following 2019 releases are organized alphabetically by category and then by dated […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database purpose built for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a fully managed, multiregion, multimaster database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. This post reviews the fundamentals you need to know to get started. We’re going to create a table and […]