Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Chapter 7DynamoDB

Earth movers are epic pieces of machinery, able to shuffle around massive bits of dirt and other materials with great ease. DynamoDB is a bit like the rented earth mover of NoSQL databases. You don’t have to build it yourself or fix it when it’s broken; you just have to drive it and pay for your usage. But it’s complex to handle so you’ll need to make very intelligent decisions about how to use it lest you end up incurring unexpected costs or jamming the engine.

DynamoDB is a cloud-based database available through Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of e-commerce giant Amazon (the same Amazon from which you may have purchased this book). You may know AWS as the creator of a dizzying, ever-expanding array ...