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Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL

April 5, 2026

Managed NoSQL Database

Multi-region, serverless NoSQL with single-digit latency.

DynamoDB Features

Capacity Modes:
Provisioned - Set RCU/WCU
On-Demand - Auto scale, no capacity planning

Data Modeling:
Partition Key + Sort Key
GSI (9 per table)
LSI (5 per table)
TTL automatic deletion

Global Tables - Multi-region replication
DynamoDB Streams - CDC
Point-in-time recovery (35 days)

Pricing

  • 25GB free storage
  • $0.25/1M read requests
  • $1.25/1M write requests