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DynamoDB

DynamoDB

- [Instructor] Another very common way to store data is in a database, of course. And AWS provides DynamoDB as one of the options for that. So let's go look at it. Under Services, I'm going to go down to the Database section, and click on DynamoDB. Here we can create tables, and data on those tables and do all other types of table management. So I'm going to click on Tables, and I'm going to close this left section for some real estate. And I'm going to create a table. Now, you can give it pretty much any name you want. So I'm going to name it MyData. And then you can give it a partition key. If you only use the partition key, then this value will be the unique ID for the row. So I'm going to do something like userId and make it a string. This also specifies where the data will be stored. So you can use a secondary key, the sort key, which is optional, and if you do, then the two of these will be the unique ID…

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