This lesson introduces the Understanding Amazon DynamoDB course, which has been designed to walk you through the basics of Amazon DynamoDB. It’s designed to provide you with a well-rounded view of the service, and covers:
- What the service does and the benefit it provides
- Basic DynamoDB terminology
- How it relates to other databases
- How to interact with the database using the DynamoDB API
- How to create DynamoDB tables using the AWS Console
- How to create local and global secondary indexes
- How to provision and configure DynamoDB in a manner that ensures it is highly available and able to serve all read and write requests to it
- How to read and write to DynamoDB
- How to look for items in your DynamoDB tables
- How DynamoDB partitions your data
- How partitioning affects you
- How DynamoDB balances partitions in a table
- What you can do to create balance across partitions
- What the DynamoDB Accelerator is and why you would want to use it within your DynamoDB database