This course explores Amazon Web Service's DynamoDB and teaches you how to architect DynamoDB setups—with an emphasis on high availability—ensuring that your internet-scale applications are always available. The course begins by looking at the various option offered by DynamoDB, before moving onto on-demand backup and restore, and rounding off by looking at point in time recovery. In each section, there is a real-world demonstration from the AWS platform which walks you through the topics covered.

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Learning Objectives

• Understand how to provision and configure DynamoDB in a manner that ensures it is highly available and able to serve all read and write requests to it.

Intended Audience

This course has been created for those who are responsible for architecting DynamoDB setups.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this course you should be familiar with basic NoSQL concepts, and DynamoDb concepts such as Tables, Items, and Attributes. Consider watching our dedicated “Working with Amazon DynamoDB” course and/or review the “10 Things You Should Know” about DynamoDB blog post, before taking this course.

Source Code

The following GitHub repository is referenced within this course:

• https://github.com/cloudacademy/dynamodb-globaltables

Hello and welcome! In this course, I’ll review and demonstrate various configuration options and techniques that you can use to create highly available Amazon DynamoDB databases. My name is Jeremy Cook and if you have any questions, please reach out to me using the details shown on screen, alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question.

This course has been created for those who are responsible for architecting DynamoDB setups - with an emphasis on high availability - ensuring that your internet scale applications are always available.

By the end of this course, you will understand how to provision and configure DynamoDB in a manner that ensures it is highly available and able to serve all read and write requests to it.

To get the most from this course you should be familiar with basic NoSQL concepts, and DynamoDb concepts such as Tables, Items, and Attributes. If required, consider watching our dedicated “Working with Amazon DynamoDB” course and/or additionally review the “10 Things You Should Know” about DynamoDB blog post. Ok, let’s get started!

 

Lectures

• AWS DynamoDB HA Options
• AWS DynamoDB HA Options Demo
• On-Demand Backup and Restore
• Point in Time Recovery
• Point in Time Recovery Demo
• Course Summary