AWS DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is NoSQL DB, which is very fast and scalable. It provides your application very low latency at any scale. DynamoDB is PaaS (available on AWS), which works on document and key value stores. For huge amounts of requests, AWS offers the DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) service to give you microsecond latency.

To secure DynamoDB, we use IAM extensively. Let's look at methods of securing DynamoDB.

Security in DynamoDB

We use IAM for authentication and access management for DynamoDB.

For signing from the console, we define users that have sufficient privileges to access DynamoDB  resources.

We use IAM roles and policies to access the DynamoDB tables to perform read/write operations. When we...