Documentation
Provides a conceptual overview of DynamoDB and includes detailed development instructions for using the various features.
Describes all the API operations for DynamoDB in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
Blog posts
Whitepapers, reports, and diagrams

Market insight: After 10 years, AWS continues to expand Amazon DynamoDB well beyond scalability (February 24, 2022).
"A decade after its introduction, Amazon DynamoDB can be considered a trailblazer in the managed cloud database space, a sector that began to emerge around 2008. While DynamoDB has been known as a purpose-built service since inception, it’s now moving into general-purpose territory, particularly as the scope of the service has broadened to cater to SQL developers to address a wide array of operational workloads…"
– James Curtis, Senior Research Analyst, Data, AI & Analytics
- Best practices for migrating from Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) to Amazon DynamoDB (February 2022). Read the whitepaper » | Download PDF »
- Analyst Report: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (December 2021). Download report »
- Case study: How the right database helps Caresyntax improve their operations (2021). Download PDF »
- Algorithmic Trading on AWS (December 2020). Download the reference architecture diagram (PDF) »
- Comparing the Use of Amazon DynamoDB and Apache HBase for NoSQL (January 2020). Read the whitepaper » | Download PDF »
- Hybrid cloud with AWS (November 2020). Download whitepaper (PDF) »
- Serverless Web App Real-Time Data Broadcasting (August 2019). Download the reference architecture diagram (PDF) »
- Amazon's Dynamo (October 2007) by AWS VP and CTO Werner Vogels. Read the blog post »
Sessions and webinars

A Decade of Innovation with Amazon DynamoDB virtual event
originally aired on 3/1/2022
When DynamoDB launched in 2012, AWS set out to make it easy for customers to store data efficiently at any scale, and with predictable performance by using a fully managed service.
Over the last ten years, customers like Zoom, Disney+, Snapchat, Dropbox, The Pokémon Company, and Mercado Libre—leaders in their industries with millions of customers—have used DynamoDB to build some of the world’s most demanding applications.
- DynamoDB customers, such as SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill, and Anirudh Jayakumar, Sr. Software Engineer at Dropbox and how they used DynamoDB to build some of the world’s most demanding applications over the last ten years
- AWS senior leaders, including Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Databases, Analytics and Machine Learning, Tony Petrossian VP of RDS / Aurora, Colin Lazier DynamoDB GM, and DynamoDB product managers, product engineers, and solutions architects on the past, present and insights on the future of the service
- AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr and AWS Data Hero Alex DeBrie and AWS Serverless Hero Jeremy Daly and how they started wtih DynamoDB, as well as deep-dive sessions on data modeling and building serverless applications
Amazon DynamoDB Office Hours
Stay tuned for more details on 2022 lineup!
Archived Episodes: 2020-2021
Former AWS principal technologist and Amazon DynamoDB expert Rick Houlihan hosted office hours with step-by-step demos, taking questions live with guests and other AWS experts in the live chat.
- Deep dive with Dynobase with Rafal Wilinski (November 3, 2021)
- Building serverless applications, best practices with Jeremy Daly, AWS Serverless Hero (August 18, 2021)
- Cost optimization best practices with Robert McCauley, Sr DynamoDB Specialist SA (August 11, 2021)
- Building a SAM template for single table AppSync, with Eric Johnson, Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless (July 28, 2021)
- Deep dive on the Dropbox metadata store with Jonathan Lee, Technical Leader at Dropbox (May 12, 2021)
- Troubleshooting key issues with AWS Data Hero Alex DeBrie (March 24, 2021)
- Deep dive on CloudWatch Contibutor Insights (October 14, 2020)
- Single vs. Multi-table Shootout with Nader Dabit: Performance breakdown using both Java client code and AWS Amplify (September 18, 2020)
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