Most Organizations Make This Mistake with AWS DynamoDB

DynamoDB is known for its flexibility, scalability, and high-performance capabilities. But like any powerful tool, it’s easy to make mistakes if you’re not careful. Many organizations begin their journey with DynamoDB using it in proof-of-concept (POC) applications. However, because of this, they usually miss one big gotcha of DynamoDB Tables which comes back to bite them later on. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*p9490AuNkwibw6qm1bdNQg.png" style="height:700px; width:700px" /> Avoid Mistakes at Project Conception <h1>The Scenario</h1> Employee 1: We need to make an application that is eventually Multi-Region and Multi-Availability-Zone. But for now we can just do everything in us-east-1. Employee 2: Sure sounds good! I’ll setup some DynamoDB Tables in that region and we can convert them to Global Tables later. Employee 1: Great! Make sure to create it through CloudFormation and check in the template to the repo. <a href="https://medium.com/@christoh/most-organizations-make-this-mistake-with-aws-dynamodb-46ff6c1f9dc">Learn More</a>