From the course: AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Cert Prep: 3 Migration and Management
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Managing DynamoDB - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Cert Prep: 3 Migration and Management
Managing DynamoDB
- The next database service we want to look at in a little more detail is DynamoDB. When it comes to managing DynamoDB, there's not a lot that you do to manage the tables and so forth. You can do reservations so that you get a little lower cost for your transaction cost as people actually use the DynamoDB database, so you can reserve more, and that reduces the cost because AWS always charges you less when you pay as a reservation in advance, as opposed to what you get dynamically over time. But another thing you can do is you can improve the performance of your DynamoDB databases by using something called DAX. Let's take a look at that. When you go into the DynamoDB management console, you will notice that you have a top half and a bottom half on the left hand navigation side. You have the DynamoDB top half and the DAX bottom half. Now, these are two separate databases. DAX is something that is used in support of DynamoDB.…
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