DynamoDB Tables

  • A Dynamo table corresponds to a collection of similarly-typed things
  • In an online shopping app, Products, Orders, and Customers might have their own tables
  • Tables store records / items for each instance of the table subject
  • ie. in an Orders table, a record might indicate that somebody bought a lamp
  • There are no joins in Dynamo. Dynamo is not a SQL database
  • Items have a max size of 400 KB

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