Chapter 5: Amazon DynamoDB
As application architectures demand scalability and shift focus to serverless design patterns, developers look to data stores that are flexible, scalable, and have low management overhead. DynamoDB has become a proven, trusted solution for these types of features. However, it has continued to evolve, and many of the features that sprouted from this service have relevance in the DevOps professional exam.
While knowing how to calculate the read to write ratio when provisioning a DynamoDB database isn't a topic of focus in the professional-level exam, understanding how this core AWS service fits into deployments and scenarios is. Having a firm understanding of the capabilities of DynamoDB, along with its features, will help you answer the exam questions, as well as allow you to implement solutions in your career engagements.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the basis and background...
