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Kate Gawron
Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet reminds you of the high-level topics and points covered in this chapter and should act as a revision guide and refresher:

  • Amazon DynamoDB is a low-latency, managed, and serverless NoSQL database created by AWS offering millisecond response times.
  • DynamoDB is serverless, which means you do not need to specify the compute needed for your workload; instead, you define capacity units that control how much data can be read and written.
  • You can run the table in on-demand mode, but the costs are generally higher than provisioned mode.
  • If you exceed the amount of capacity reserved, you can receive errors around throttling and the performance of your queries will drop.
  • DynamoDB stores data in items that must have a key to define them.
  • DynamoDB relies on two different index types, GSI and LSI, to control access to the items.
  • You can take manual backups or use PITR backups.
  • You can use global tables to provision your DynamoDB table...
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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