Working with the AWS Management Console

To get started with DynamoDB in the AWS Management Console, the first thing you will need is an AWS account. If you don’t already have one, you can sign up for free and use a set number of services at no cost under the AWS Free Tier. There are three ways that the AWS Free Tier works—some services are offered as a free trial for a short term, others are free to use for 12 months, and lastly, some remain free forever and do not expire.

For DynamoDB, the AWS Free Tier offers the following:

• 25 GB of table storage
• 25 write capacity units (WCU) of provisioned capacity
• 25 read capacity units (RCU) of provisioned capacity
• 25 replicated write capacity units (rWCU)
• 2.5 million DynamoDB Streams read requests
• 1 GB data transfer out (15 GB for the first 12 months)

The benefits listed are given under the Standard table class.

Not only does this allow you to perform up to 200 million requests per month...