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Introduction to DynamoDB

Introduction to DynamoDB

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Introduction to DynamoDB

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- [Instructor] So now that we have all the forms of user authentication set up in our demo app, the next thing that we're going to be working on is moving all of our data into the cloud using Amazon DynamoDB. So before we do that, I just wanted to have a brief overview, and so I'm here on the homepage for Amazon DynamoDB service. And right away on the homepage, one thing that I wanna mention is that DynamoDB is a non-relational database. If you are used to using MySQL for example, that's an example of a relational database, so instead of having related tables that are all made up of rows and columns, in DynamoDB all of the tables are gonna be made up of attributes, so that might be something a little different than what you're used to. And I don't have time to expound on any database architecture beyond that, but I did wanna mention that we're gonna be working with a non-relational database. So if I scroll down here on the homepage, you can see that they have some different use cases…

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