Question: Are DynamoDB tables globally unique?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
No, DynamoDB tables are unique within a specific region. Hence you can create a table with the same name across multiple regions.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- What is the maximum number of partitions in DynamoDB?
- Are DynamoDB table names supposed to be unique?
- Can we rename DynamoDB table?
- Can firehose write to DynamoDB?
- Does Alexa use DynamoDB?
- How is data stored in DynamoDB?
- How to create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
- Can DynamoDB have null values?
- Is DynamoDB ACID compliant?
- Why is DynamoDB better than MongoDB?
- Which AWS regions support DynamoDB?
- How to access DynamoDB from EC2?
- Is DynamoDB SQL or NoSQL?
- Can DynamoDB be replicated?
- Can DynamoDB have multiple tables?
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