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Amazon DynamoDB

  • What it is
    • Fully managed, serverless NoSQL key-value and document database.
    • Single-digit millisecond latency at any scale; no servers, no version upgrades, no capacity planning required.
  • Key traits
    • Data replicated across 3 AZs automatically; 99.999% availability SLA with Global Tables.
    • Capacity modes: on-demand (pay per request, scales instantly) or provisioned (cheaper for predictable traffic).
    • Global Tables — active-active multi-Region replication.
    • DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) — in-memory cache dropping reads to microseconds.
    • Point-in-time recovery to any second in the last 35 days.
  • Not to be confused with
  • Exam signal
    • “Serverless”, “key-value”, “millisecond latency at any scale”, “flexible schema” → DynamoDB.

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