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DynamoDB Advanced Features: DAX, Streams & Global Tables

The DynamoDB features that support real production systems beyond basic reads and writes — DAX for microsecond caching, Streams for event-driven reactions to data changes, Global Tables for multi-region active-active replication, and backup/restore options.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain what DAX caches, and why it cannot help with strongly consistent reads
  • Trace how a DynamoDB Streams + Lambda trigger pipeline reacts to a table change end to end
  • Explain how Global Tables achieve multi-region writes and how AWS resolves write conflicts
  • Compare Point-in-Time Recovery to on-demand backups and choose correctly for a given scenario

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dynamodb-fundamentalsrds-advanced-operationslambda-serverlessmulti-region-architecture

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