Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the beginnings of the service from Dynamo through to DynamoDB, and how some of the biggest companies in the world are leveraging DynamoDB to power their mission-critical workloads. We covered where DynamoDB sits within the NoSQL market, and briefly recapped how NoSQL technologies fit within the overall database landscape.

We read about some incredible examples of how well DynamoDB performs and operates at scale, and I encourage you to explore further case studies available on the DynamoDB product page (20).

We touched on the fact that the workloads best suited to DynamoDB are those that have well-known and defined access patterns and workloads that are predominantly, although not strictly limited to, OLTP. Search and analytical workloads typically aren’t well supported, so knowing when to offload this need is important.

In the next chapter, we will explore how we interact with DynamoDB in order for us to prepare a working environment (either locally or remotely in the cloud) so we can start data modeling and working with some of the incredible features that DynamoDB has to offer.