Guided Lab: Creating an Amazon DynamoDB table

Description

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB lets you offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database so that you don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup, and configuration, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling. DynamoDB also offers encryption at rest, which eliminates the operational burden and complexity involved in protecting sensitive data.

Objectives

In this lab, you will learn how to:

  • Understand the basics of Amazon DynamoDB
  • Create a DynamoDB table
  • Understand Point-in-time recovery for DynamoDB