Item: Amazon DynamoDB
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DynamoDB for our project VacationTracker. We decided to use DynamoDB because it was cheap and the latency between our AWS Serverless microservices and DynamoDB is less.

Pros and Cons

Point-in-time recovery backup
Auto-scaling
Scaling horizontally
Only pay for what you use, its good for a startup project.

Price calculator, but for the startup project, it's free.

Return on Investment

We moved to DynamoDB from MongoDB, for now. DynamoDB is cheaper.
DynamoDB is faster than MongoDB, better response between services.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon CloudWatch

Other Software Used

AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon CloudWatch

Likelihood to Renew

If you use AWS Lambda services or SNS or other AWS services you need to use DynamoDB because it works really fast.

Likelihood to Recommend

You should not worry about scaling with this tool. For beginners, it's not easy to understand how partition key and sort key work.

DyanmoDB scaling and backup

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon DynamoDB