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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 6. Implementing DynamoDB – NoSQL Database

Traditionally, IT companies were dependent on Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs) for storing their application data. A huge amount of data is being stored every day in databases, which are usually structured in nature. In the past, RDBMS were the default choice for client-server applications so that applications could store data by following the Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and Durable (ACID) property. RDBMS follows the ACID properties for database transactions. Looking at today's application needs, the speed and nature of data is changing over time. So, to support the unstructured or dynamic data, RDBMS needs to be cost effective, reliable, durable, and scalable. RDBMS also needs to maintain the relationships between tables and overheads of joins for Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations. So, to handle those challenges, Not Only SQL (NoSQL) came in to the picture. NoSQL can handle unstructured data efficiently...