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Amazon DynamoDB: Best Practices

This course will teach you best practices for designing scalable, highly available, and highly performant DynamoDB databases on AWS. This course will prepare you for AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification exam.

Advanced
3h 18m
(27)

Created by Raj Saha

Last Updated Oct 20, 2025

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Amazon DynamoDB: Best Practices

This course will teach you best practices for designing scalable, highly available, and highly performant DynamoDB databases on AWS. This course will prepare you for AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification exam.

Advanced
3h 18m
(27)

Created by Raj Saha

Last Updated Oct 20, 2025

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What you'll learn

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, highly available, durable NoSQL database, and a powerful alternative to its SQL counterpart. In this course, Amazon DynamoDB: Best Practices, you’ll learn key features of DynamoDB, along with how to analyze requirements to design DynamoDB solutions. First, you’ll explore how to design responsive, scalable, and highly available DynamoDB databases. Next, you’ll discover migration strategies, backup restore and automated deployments for DynamoDB. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize database performance and secure your database. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of an AWS database architect needed to answer questions from the DynamoDB domain of the AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification exam.

Amazon DynamoDB: Best Practices
Advanced
3h 18m
(27)
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Raj Saha
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Rajdeep is a Senior Cloud Architect at a Fortune Top 10 company. He is AWS-Professional Certified Solutions Architect and has worked in Fortune top 20 companies as a Distinguished Cloud Architect. He has migrated real enterprise projects into cloud using VMs(EC2), Containers and Serverless. He has published blogs and presented well received talks in conferences. Rajdeep is a published instructor and also runs a YouTube channel on technology. All opinions are Rajdeep's own.

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