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Amazon DynamoDB

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Cloud Database Management Systems
4.6

Overview

Product Information on Amazon DynamoDB

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB is a software designed to provide managed NoSQL database solutions for applications requiring consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. The software supports key-value and document data structures and offers features such as automatic scaling, backup and restore, in-memory caching, and multi-region replication. With its serverless architecture, the software handles operational aspects such as hardware provisioning, setup, configuration, and patching, enabling organizations to focus on application development. The software addresses business needs for scalable and highly available storage where predictable performance and flexibility in data modeling are required.

Amazon DynamoDB Pricing

Amazon DynamoDB software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model where costs are based on the provisioned throughput, data storage, and optional features such as backup, restore, and data transfer. There is no minimum fee, and users are billed monthly according to their actual usage, with additional charges for advanced capabilities like global tables and on-demand capacity.

Overall experience with Amazon DynamoDB

AI ENGINEER
250M - 500M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“DynamoDB Excels in Performance but Presents Challenges With Data Modeling Complexity”

4.0
Nov 6, 2025
DynamoDB has been a solid choice for managing high performance, scalable NoSQL workloads. We've used it for handling metadata and session management in a few microservices, and it's been remarkably fast and reliable. The auto scaling and on demand capacity modes make it easy to handle unpredictable traffic without worrying about provisioning. That said, the learning curve is real. The data modelling approach is quite different from traditional relational databases, and designing efficient query patters requires planning.
IT Architect
30B + USD, Energy and Utilities
CRITICAL

“Missing search features, aggregations and map reduce”

3.0
Feb 8, 2024
I like features of the product like the secondary indexes and the possibility (as other products) to have differents structure of the record in the same table. But it's pretty difficult to manage for the poorness of gui products.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon DynamoDB Likes & Dislikes

Like

- Perfromance and Scalability: DynamoDB handles traffic seamlessly without manual tuning - Serverless desgin: No need to manage infrastructure or worry about downtime. - Integration with AWS ecosystem: Works flawlessly with Lambda, API Gateway and CloudWatch.

Like

The best of all is the speedness of retrieving and storing data and the scalability. It's also very usefull the authentication of the product integreted with AWS.

Like

- You can choose on-demand capacity mode to start - Some features like backup, restore and point in time recovery are great features provided by this DB - In-depth security through IAM and encryption - overall it performs extremely well for a scalable system - Aws support is responsive and helpful

Dislike

Data modeling complexity is one of the things I dislike the most about DynamoDB. You have to design around access patterns, not relationships, which takes time to get right. Query limitations like no joins, limited query operators, and secondary indexes can't fully replace relational flexibility.

Dislike

It's lack about a lot of searching features expecially when fields are not indexes.

Dislike

- pricing prediction at high scale is difficult with read/write spike - debugging performance is bit time consuming - requires a high learning curve and mistake are costly to fix later after identification

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Amazon DynamoDB Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(367 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
56%
4 Star
41%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Planning & Transition

4.5

Delivery & Execution

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • AI ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    DynamoDB Excels in Performance but Presents Challenges With Data Modeling Complexity

    4.0
    Nov 6, 2025
    DynamoDB has been a solid choice for managing high performance, scalable NoSQL workloads. We've used it for handling metadata and session management in a few microservices, and it's been remarkably fast and reliable. The auto scaling and on demand capacity modes make it easy to handle unpredictable traffic without worrying about provisioning. That said, the learning curve is real. The data modelling approach is quite different from traditional relational databases, and designing efficient query patters requires planning.
  • ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    DynamoDB Offers High Performance and Scale But Presents Pricing Challenges

    4.0
    Dec 13, 2025
    - Amazing performance with single digit latency in multisecond - Auto-scaling feature of dynamoDB is handle unpredictable load - Great and tight integration with AWS ecosystem - High availability and scalability are core features of Dynamo DB - Pricing at high scale is very tough to predict
  • DATA ENGINEER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    DynamoDB delivers exceptional speed, flexibility and reliability for Airflow DAG configuration storage

    5.0
    Dec 11, 2025
    Our team adopted AWS DynamoDB to store Apache Airflow (MWAA) DAG configuration metadata, replacing a traditional RDMS-based approach. The experience has been overwhelmingly positive. DynamoDB has proven to be a low latency, highly reliable and operationally simple solution for our metadata-driven orchestration workflows. This migration immediately removed issues we previously faced with database locks and performance degradation under concurrent read/write loads. DynamoDB's serverless nature and predictable performance has allowed us to focus more on building robust data pipelines.
  • Qa Lead
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    DynamoDB’s Automatic Scaling and Low Latency Support Complex Retail Operations

    4.0
    Mar 16, 2026
    Amazon DynamoDB has become production-critical infrastructure at our company. DynamoDB power mission-critical systems across management, membership programs, retails transactions and promotions. Teams appreciate the platforms maturity and automatic scaling, but we have to be causes with discipline needed to manage distribution and cost optimization.
  • Software Developer
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Cross-Service Compatibility and Accidental Deletion Prevention Stand Out

    4.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    I quite enjoy how easily one can create and modify the contents of a table, yet still be able to setup safeguards so as to prevent accidental deletion. Additionally, the option to toggle auto-querying of a table on or off is really convenient.
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