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?
- Is connection pooling needed for DynamoDB?
- What does the DynamoDB query return?
- How is data stored in DynamoDB?
- How do you store JSON on DynamoDB?
- How do I create an id in DynamoDB?
- How to access DynamoDB from EC2?
- Is DynamoDB a wide-column store?
- Will I be charged for DynamoDB is it is inactive?
- Can we pass objects as an item in DynamoDB?
- What is the maximum number of partitions in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB open source?
- Is DynamoDB a relational database?
- Can a DynamoDB range key be a GSI key?
- Is DynamoDB PaaS or SaaS?
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