Building with Amazon DynamoDB Tables

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In this lab, you will investigate another AWS fully managed nonrelational database service: Amazon DynamoDB.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1 Hour 0 Minutes

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

      •    Load and verify data in DynamoDB

      •    Run complex queries to meet your objective

      •    Improving performance using DAX

      •    Review logging and monitoring options

      •    Restore service from backups

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Solutions Architects

      •    Database Architects

      •    Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

      •    Basic navigation of the AWS Management Console

      •    Familiarity with SQL commands and basic operations

      •    Familiarity with the AWS Management Console

Course outline

Introduction

      •    Task 1: Create a table and upload data

      •    Task 2: Run queries using the DynamoDB console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDK

      •    Task 3: Improve performance with DAX

      •    Task 4: Monitor logs and server metrics

      •    Task 5: Backup and restore a DynamoDB table