DynamoDB is a fully managed no SQL database provided by AWS for all your high-performance database needs. This database is ideal for web applications, backends that don't require relational databases, and high-volume data capture applications such as surveys and quick polls. This course is specifically designed for all you developers out there looking to learn how to read and write data to and from your DynamoDB tables. We'll also touch on performance considerations to allow you to get the most possible performance out of your DynamoDB deployment.

Hello and welcome. My name is Carlos Rivas and I'm a senior AWS content creator here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions using the details shown on the screen or you can always get in touch with us by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question. This course is aimed at developers. Ideally, you're already familiar with DynamoDB enough to create tables and populate some sample data. Also, since I'll be showing Python code, it would be best if you have done at least some cloud development work using the AWS SDK using your programming language of preference. By the end of this course, you should have a good understanding of reading and writing data into your DynamoDB tables. Some of the key points we'll be covering in this course include: reading and writing from the console, reading and writing from code, and looking for items in your DynamoDB tables.

Some useful knowledge to have before starting includes: cloud development, the AWS Software Development Kit or SDK, and some DynamoDB basics. Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy is valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact support@cloudacademy.com. All right, let's get started.