In this chapter, we discussed considering AWS DynamoDB as a backend database for your mobile applications. We started with discussing the challenges in using traditional in-house databases for mobile applications. We then discussed how DynamoDB can be helpful if you chose it as a backend database for mobile applications.

We talked about how WIF can help you to reduce the time to market for mobile applications by integrating the authentication and authorization with Facebook, Google, and Amazon accounts. We also saw how the AWS STS helps in securing our mobile applications by generating temporary access tokens for mobile application requests on AWS resources. For those who want to use their own identity credentials, we saw how that can be performed as well.

Later, we discussed the best practices in DynamoDB data modeling for a mobile considering an example use case of an e-commerce mobile application. Taking this example as a reference, we understood how various operations can be performed...