Amazon DynamoDB System Properties

Amazon DynamoDB is a nonrelational database that delivers reliable performance at any scale. It's a fully managed, multi-region, multi-master database that provides consistent single-digit millisecond latency, and offers built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching.

More than 100,000 AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT, and many other applications that need low-latency data access. Create a new table for your application and let DynamoDB handle the rest. 

Ad Tech
Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that delivers consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. DynamoDB provides the performance and availability you need to create real-time bidding (RTB) platforms and recommendation engines. Reference Architecture: Diagram

Gaming
You can create responsive games for mobile, console, and desktop with DynamoDB. Store and query Amazon Lumberyard game data such as player state, high scores, or world dynamic content through Cloud Canvas. Developing a successful mobile game is about more than just the game: DynamoDB integrates with the AWS Mobile SDK and a broad set of AWS services for user authentication, downloadable content, and social features. Reference Architecture: Diagram

IoT
DynamoDB lets you easily store and query device data so you can focus on building incredible new AWS IoT solutions. Connect your high-velocity, high-volume IoT data in DynamoDB to a Amazon Redshift data warehouse to enable BI analysis. Reference Architecture: Diagram

Samsung uses DynamoDB for their petabyte size mobile app backups, resulting in consistent high performance and cost savings. Watch the video Â»

Netflix uses DynamoDB to run A/B testing that builds personalized streaming experiences for their 125+ million customers. Watch the video Â»

Capital One uses DynamoDB to reduce latency for their mobile applications by moving their mainframe transactions to a serverless architecture for unbound scale. Watch the video Â»

Snap migrated their largest storage workload, Snapchat Stories, to DynamoDB and improved performance while reducing cost. Watch the video Â»

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According to DB-Engines' ranking, Amazon DynamoDB is the most popular fully managed database service.

Gartner Research positions Amazon Web Services in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant Operational Database Management Systems. Gartner defines leaders as those that generally demonstrate the most support for a broad range of operational applications, based on support for a wide range of data types and multiple use cases. These vendors demonstrate consistent customer satisfaction and strong customer support.

With Amazon DynamoDB, you only pay for the throughput and storage you need.  The AWS Free Tier offers 25 GB of storage and up to 200 million requests per month with Amazon DynamoDB. Learn more »