Question: Are DynamoDB table names supposed to be unique?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
Yes, DynamoDB table names must be unique within a region in an AWS account. This is because table names are used to identify the specific table when performing operations.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- Is DynamoDB ACID compliant?
- How do parallelize requests in DynamoDB?
- Do I need a middleware for DynamoDB?
- What are the key differences between DynamoDB and Elasticsearch?
- How to handle empty strings in DynamoDB?
- Does DynamoDB support read replicas?
- Does DynamoDB support atomic updates?
- Is DynamoDB highly available?
- Is it possible to make a DynamoDB table case insensitive?
- Is LSI automatically created on DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB columnar database?
- Which AWS regions support DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB real-time?
- Can I add another region to global DynamoDB?
- How to create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
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