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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. million requests per second.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

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So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). When designing a new application that will operate in the AWS cloud, first take a look at DynamoDB when selecting a database. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying.

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