Question: Is DynamoDB highly available?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
Yes, DynamoDB is both highly available, scalable, and distributed data store. It achieves that by sharding your data over dozens of servers across Availability Zones and does that automatically for you without your intervention. Moreover, you can use it in a multi-region fashion using global tables.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- How to handle empty strings in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB NoSQL?
- Is DynamoDB multi-region?
- In DynamoDB, can I use UUID as the partition key?
- Is DynamoDB good for unstructured data?
- How to import data from S3 to DynamoDB?
- Can a DynamoDB range key be a GSI key?
- What is DynamoDB used for?
- How to create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
- How to enable DynamoDB monitoring?
- How to connect to DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB table region specific?
- Is DynamoDB a memory store?
- What is DynamoDB white paper, and what are the key takeaways?
- Can DynamoDB be replicated?
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