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Atharva P.

Cloud BI Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/8/2026

"Highly Scalable, Low Latency Database with Seamless AWS Integration"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like Amazon DynamoDB's fully managed and highly scalable NoSQL database with very low latency and seamless AWS integration. I appreciate the automatic scaling because it handles workloads seamlessly and offers high availability with minimal operational overhead. The low latency performance of DynamoDB enables fast read and writes for our organization's real-time applications. I value its serverless architecture, which means we don't have to manage infrastructure, reducing the operational overhead significantly. The streams integration provides event-driven workflows, and the global tables offer multi-region availability and resilience, solving multiple problems. I also find it really useful for integrating data pipelines and working with event-driven applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Schema and partition key design require careful planning. Query flexibility is limited compared to relational databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon DynamoDB handles high traffic efficiently, offering scalable high-performance data storage for real-time apps, without database management. It features automatic scaling, high availability, low latency, minimal operational overhead, and seamless AWS integration, providing fast performance for distributed and event-driven applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.