Amazon/AWS DynamoDB Tutorial for Beginners | Create Your First DynamoDB Table and Items

AWS offers many purpose-built databases--meaning each "specializes" in certain types of use cases. DynamoDB is the primarily NoSQL offering, being used for high-traffic web applications, e-commerce and gaming. It's highly scalable, performant, and offers a really flexible key-value schema.In this hands-on tutorial, we'll create our first DynamoDB table through the AWS Console, and then add two items, illustrating just how flexible the schema is. All in less than 5 minutes!Here's a breakdown of this video:What is DynamoDB and why would you use it?An example schema for DynamoDBWhat is a key-value pair database?Creating our first DynamoDB table from the AWS ConsoleCreating items in our DynamoDB tableUnderstanding how flexible schemas are in DynamoDB (especially compared to a relational database)

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