Amazon DynamoDB System Properties

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It's a fully managed, multiregion, multimaster database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. DynamoDB can handle more than 10 trillion requests per day and support peaks of more than 20 million requests per second.

Many of the world's fastest growing businesses such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin as well as enterprises such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.

More than 100,000 AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB as their key-value and document database for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT, and other applications that need low-latency data access at any scale. Create a new table for your application and let DynamoDB handle the rest.

Serverless web applications

Build powerful web applications that automatically scale up and down. You don't need to maintain servers, and your applications have automated high availability.

Reference architecture: Sample code

Microservices data store

Build flexible and reusable microservices using DynamoDB as a serverless data store for consistent and fast performance.

Reference architecture: Sample code

Mobile backends

Build personalized mobile apps with smooth experiences for your users. DynamoDB takes care of operational tasks so that you can focus on your applications.

Reference architecture: Sample code

Ad Tech
Create real-time bidding platforms and recommendation engines with scalability, throughput, and availability of DynamoDB.

Reference Architecture: Diagram

Gaming
Store and query game data such as player stte, high scores, or world dynamic content.

Reference Architecture: Diagram

IoT
Analyze your devices by connecting your high-velocity, high-volume IoT data in DynamoDB to Amazon Redshift and Amazon QuickSight.

Reference Architecture: Diagram

Nike Digital migrated their large clusters of Cassandra to a fully managed Amazon DynamoDB, allowing more resources for better customer experience. Watch the video »

GE Aviation rearchitected their plotting and data-query application for cost savings, scalability, and performance using Amazon DynamoDB. Watch the video »

Oath deployed GDPR compliance for their applications globally and leveraged Amazon DynamoDB global tables to enable data synchronization. Watch the video »

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

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

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 »

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

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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.

DynamoDB charges for reading, writing, and storing data in your DynamoDB tables, along with any optional features you choose to enable. DynamoDB has two capacity modes and those come with specific billing options for processing reads and writes on your tables: on-demand and provisioned. Learn more »