Lesson 01Read

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

A managed NoSQL database — no schema to migrate, no server to size, and a primary key that decides both how items are found and how cheaply.

Amazon DynamoDB is a database — not compute, not networking. It's also not a relational database: there's no schema to migrate, no JOIN, and no server to size — a table exists as a managed, always-on service that scales its own storage and throughput as items come and go.

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