Amazon DynamoDB
Serverless, fully managed, distributed NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale
What is DynamoDB
DynamoDB offers zero infrastructure management, instant scaling, pay-per-request billing, and no cold starts, upgrades, or maintenance windows. These capabilities, along with native vector search, make DynamoDB ideal for agentic applications that need semantic retrieval. For globally distributed applications, DynamoDB global tables is a multi-Region, multi-active database with up to 99.999% availability. It supports multi-Region strong consistency so your applications always stay available and read the same data from any Region, enabling you to build zero recovery point objective applications. A broad set of DynamoDB security controls and compliance standards satisfy the requirements for governments, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations.
Benefits of DynamoDB
Scale and value of DynamoDB
- customers
- 1 million+
- requests per second delivered for 100s of customers
- ½ million+
- table size used by 100s of customers
- 200TB+
- of equivalent database environments
- 25% lower cost
Use cases
Run mission-critical workloads on a database built for up to 99.999% availability and zero RPO, with multi-Region, multi-active global tables, multi-Region strong consistency, ACID transactions, and built-in durability, security, and compliance for applications that cannot afford downtime or data loss.
Build internet-scale applications that serve tens of millions of concurrent users and hundreds of millions of requests per second with single-digit millisecond performance. whether its across tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of simultaneous users and AI agents. DynamoDB scales instantly to absorb traffic spikes and you only pay for what you use (zero when idle), so you can power user profiles, content metadata, shopping carts, and session stores without provisioning or managing infrastructure.
Build applications that require vector search for agent memory, recommendation engines, personalized experiences, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and more. Store embeddings alongside your operational data and run real-time similarity search at any scale, so agents can act on the latest context without standing up or synchronizing a separate vector database.
Modernize workloads that have outgrown their relational databases, moving high-scale, low-latency applications to a fully managed, serverless model with consistent performance, virtually unlimited scale, and no operational overhead. Eliminate the cost and complexity of scaling relational systems, and use bulk import to migrate and keep data in sync as you transition.
Ingest and store high-velocity sensor and device data at scale, using Time to Live (TTL) to automatically expire aged records and DynamoDB Streams to trigger near real-time processing of incoming events. DynamoDB absorbs unpredictable, bursty device traffic from millions of endpoints with consistent write performance, so you can capture telemetry, track device state, and feed downstream analytics without managing capacity. Use ExtendDB to deploy your DynamoDB application to edge IoT devices.
Industries
Financial services
DynamoDB gives financial services teams the multi-Region resilience, up to 99.999% availability, strong consistency, and ACID transactions that payments and core banking workloads depend on, backed by compliance certifications such as SOC 1/2/3, PCI, FINMA, and ISO. Common use cases include core banking ledger, fraud detection, messaging workflows, digital user onboarding, and more.
Software & internet
SaaS and consumer applications need to scale elastically with unpredictable growth while isolating tenant data and holding latency low at high request volumes. The serverless scaling, fine-grained access control, and consistent single-digit millisecond performance of DynamoDB meets these needs. Typical workloads include user profiles, fine-grained authorization and entitlements, session management, and metadata stores serving hundreds of millions of requests per second.
Gaming
Games face sudden, unpredictable traffic spikes at launch and during live events, and DynamoDB scales instantly to absorb them with no operational overhead while keeping play responsive for millions of concurrent users. DynamoDB can store player data and profiles, game state, leaderboards, matchmaking, and in-game transactions.
Retail & e-commerce
Retail and e-commerce must stay fast and available through extreme peak events like Black Friday and flash sales, and DynamoDB scales automatically to deliver consistent performance while keeping shopping carts and checkout responsive. Shopping carts, inventory tracking, product catalogs, order management and order history, customer profiles, session management, pricing and promotions, personalized recommendations, loyalty and rewards programs, and real-time order tracking are typical use cases.
AdTech & MarTech
Advertising and marketing technology applications run on ultra-low-latency, write-heavy workloads like real-time bidding, where responses are measured in milliseconds, and DynamoDB sustains predictable single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Common scenarios include evaluating social media posts, monetizing publishing assets more effectively, real-time bidding, ad-targeting, and attribution.
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