Working with DynamoDB
DynamoDB has its roots in the Dynamo key-value store. Amazon created Dynamo in response to a number of critical outages that occurred during the 2004 holiday shopping season.[52] Now the next generation of this system—DynamoDB—is available as a web service that you can use for your own projects.
One of Amazon’s goals with DynamoDB was to create a datastore that could scale without limit, and it seems to have achieved that.[53] There are no practical limits on the number of items you can store in a DynamoDB table or how big the table can be. In other words, as long as you keep paying your bill, Amazon will keep adding capacity.
Along with these amazing capabilities, DynamoDB has some quirks. To understand how to organize ...
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