How to Install DynamoDB Locally on Windows 10 Are you learning, innovating and building on AWS? Do you know that it provides a generous free tier for 12 months to make yourself familiar with various services so that you can be comfortable while using them? But what if you have Read More
Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables: All You need to Know Imagine you have a very successful application. In other words, let’s say your users are spread across the globe. And, you are using DynamoDB to store and retrieve user information. Now as you know DynamoDB tables are by default in one Read More
How to Create DynamoDB Table with On-demand Capacity Mode Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless , key-value NoSQL database that provides predictable performance(single digit milli-second) at any scale. It is a popular database as of today and is being used by hundreds of thousands of customers including Disney and Read More
How to Create DynamoDB Global Table using CloudFormation In my previous post, we learnt How to Create DynamoDB Global Table using AWS Console. We also learnt that DynamoDB global tables are helpful when we have our application users spread worldwide. It helps us provide data access at lower latency and Read More
How to Create DynamoDB Global Table using AWS Console Amazon DynamoDB global tables come really handy when you have a heavily used application and its users are spread worldwide. Using DynamoDB global tables you can provide – Better latency while accessing data to your users despite their geographical location Better Read More
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database provided by Amazon Web Services. It provides single digit millisecond performance at any scale. Amazing right? Of course it is… You can choose DynamoDB when you have the requirement to store semi structured data and to retrieve them really fast. In one Read More
How to Create DynamoDB Table using AWS CLI When it comes to creating and managing resources in AWS, there are quite a few options to us like AWS Management Console, CLI, SDK, CDK, CloudFormation etc. However, nothing beats the ease of quickly hitting a CLI command to see how something Read More
Error Message : Property ProvisionedThroughput cannot be empty. Problem: I was creating a very simple DynamoDB table with just a primary key EmployeeId using below CloudFormation Template. And, My Stack Creation Failed With Below Error !!! Property ProvisionedThroughput cannot be empty. Why This Happened? As we know, DynamoDB being a Read More
Error Message : cannot perform more than one GSI creation or deletion in a single update Problem: I was trying to add multiple GSI on an existing table using CloudFormation updatestack. Initially, I created a DynamoDB table with two GSI Location-index and Department-index. After few days of initial table creation, Read More
How to Create DynamoDB table with Global Secondary Index using CloudFormation? A few days ago, I wrote a post on Creating a DynamoDB table using CloudFormation. Back then, I didn’t cover Global Secondary Indexes or GSI. You might ask, why? Well, I wanted to give GSI special attention as there Read More
