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Demo: Provisioning a DynamoDB table in the AWS admin console

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Demo: Provisioning a DynamoDB table in the AWS admin console

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to create our DynamoDB table. Login to the AWS Management Console, and from the Find Services search we can type DynamoDB. (mouse clicking) And I'll get a big blue button that says Create Table. This table will be for our entire application. My table name is going to be BaseballStats, (keyboard typing) and my partition key is going to be TeamID 'cause we've decided that that is the best partition key to keep all my data evenly spread across the entire database. I do want to sort key, and I'm just going to call it SK, and it's going to be a string for now. And you notice we're offered the default settings; no secondary indexes, auto scaling set to 70%, five reads and five writes per second. I'm going to uncheck this, just so we can look at the options here available to us. Notice the secondary indexes, we talked about that earlier, but there's another kind of secondary index here. It's called a Local Secondary Index. And if I use the exact same…

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