Amazon DynamoDB
- Category
- AWS services
- Docs outline
- 12 sections
Official docs outline
docs.aws.amazon.com- Core components
Tables, items, attributes, primary keys, partition and sort keys, and secondary indexes.
- Partitions and data distribution
How items map to partitions by partition key hash and why key design affects throughput.
- Capacity modes
Provisioned versus on-demand throughput, read and write capacity units and auto scaling.
- Reads and writes
Read consistency, GetItem, Query, Scan, writes, conditional writes and batch operations.
- Secondary indexes
Global and local secondary indexes, projections and index design.
- Transactions
TransactWriteItems and TransactGetItems for all-or-nothing operations.
- DynamoDB Streams
Change data capture records for table changes and triggering Lambda.
- Global tables
Multi-Region, multi-active replication and conflict resolution.
- Backup and restore
On-demand backups, point-in-time recovery and AWS Backup integration.
- DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
In-memory write-through cache for microsecond read latency.
- Data modeling and best practices
NoSQL design, partition key design, sort keys, hot keys and single-table patterns.
- Security
IAM policies, fine-grained access control, encryption at rest and VPC endpoints.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.