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What is Amazon DynamoDB and what are its key characteristics?

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Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database from AWS that stores key-value items and documents. AWS runs the servers, storage and scaling.

Its key characteristics:

  • Reads and writes take single-digit milliseconds at any scale.
  • Its service level agreement (SLA) promises 99.99% availability, or 99.999% for global tables, and data is replicated across three Availability Zones.
  • The schema is flexible, since only the primary key is fixed.
  • In on-demand mode, capacity scales with each request. In provisioned mode, auto scaling adjusts the capacity you set.
  • ACID transactions make writes to several items succeed or fail together.
  • Global tables replicate a table to other Regions, and every replica accepts writes.
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