Question: Is DynamoDB PaaS or SaaS?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a part of its AWS Cloud. It is considered a Platform as a Service offering that provides a platform for customers to store, retrieve, and manage their data. In contrast, AWS manages the underlying infrastructure and handles scaling, patching, and backup tasks.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- Is DynamoDB distributed?
- How to write complex queries for a DynamoDB table?
- How do parallelize requests in DynamoDB?
- Do I need a middleware for DynamoDB?
- How to divert the traffic from S3 to DynamoDB?
- How to forcefully delete a DynamoDB table?
- How to store location coordinates in DynamoDB?
- How to count rows in DynamoDB?
- Should you make a new DynamoDB client for each request?
- Is DynamoDB real-time?
- Does sharding affect DynamoDB reads?
- Why is Single-Table-Design popular in DynamoDB?
- What is the access pattern in DynamoDB?
- Can DynamoDB do aggregations?
- Why must table be empty to enable DynamoDB global tables?
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