intermediate~2.5h

DynamoDB Fundamentals

AWS's fully managed NoSQL key-value and document database — single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale, with a fundamentally different design model than a relational database.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain DynamoDB's core data model: tables, items, partition keys, and sort keys
  • Explain the difference between On-Demand and Provisioned capacity modes
  • Explain what a Global Secondary Index solves and its tradeoffs
  • Explain what DAX adds on top of DynamoDB

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