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Control database costs: DynamoDB

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Control database costs: DynamoDB

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- [Instructor] DynamoDB is a popular, server-less table service. It's kind of like Lambda, in a way, in that you don't manage at the level of a virtual machine or a container; you manage at the level of the service. Now for Lambda, of course, you put in your own application code or your function code. For DynamoDB, you're having a no SQL or a wide, tabular structure. So you pay by table access. So it's kind of similar conceptually, and I find for people that are coming out of the server world, it's as difficult to understand the pricing model as it is Lambda compared to virtual machines. So again, take that same paradigm. With Lambda, you might remember that you pay by the size allocation in memory and the number of invocations. It's conceptually very similar with DynamoDB. You're not paying for a VM size or containers; you're paying for the capacity. So you can see here that I've created a table with the…

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