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 based on MongoDB?
- Is DynamoDB document-based?
- Should you make a new DynamoDB client for each request?
- How do you store JSON on DynamoDB?
- How to access DynamoDB from Android Studio?
- Is LSI automatically created on DynamoDB?
- Does DynamoDB support read replicas?
- How does DynamoDB handle data changes?
- How do parallelize requests in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB real-time?
- Who owns DynamoDB?
- What are the differences between DynamoDB and Snowflake?
- Is DynamoDB columnar database?
- Is it possible to make a DynamoDB table case insensitive?
- How to count rows in DynamoDB?
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