Amazon DynamoDB 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Amazon DynamoDB

4.4

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database designed to help enterprises manage data using built-in security, backup, restore and in-memory caching capabilities.

The application includes a visual NoSQL workbench, which assists developers with data modeling, visualization and query development. Users can map and test queries, view the access patterns of application, perform data plane operations and generate sample code in multiple languages. Users can use AWS management console to track latest alerts, measure total capacity, manage streams and apply tags to resources. It lets IT professionals maintain data correctness across applications, encrypt data by default and provide identity control to tables. Using point-in-time recovery, administrators can protect data from accidental write or delete operations.

Amazon DynamoDB provides integration with AWS Lambda, letting developers use triggers to run custom functions for item-level changes across tables. Pricing is based on memory usage and support is provided via documentation and online measures.

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Amazon DynamoDB Pricing and Plans

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Amazon DynamoDB Features

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Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
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Data Recovery
Data Storage Management
Mobile Access
NOSQL Database Management

Amazon DynamoDB User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

52%

38%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.4

Pawe W.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

DynamoDB for Big Data Processing

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I have used DynamoDB in dozen of projects, including the commercial medium-scale applications and University Research projects that included processing massive amount of data. DynamoDB is my go-to solution for NoSQL Databases, it is very easy to configure and the documentation is near perfect. An experienced Engineer who has worked with Databases before will grasp most of the features in a couple of weeks. DynamoDB is a fantastic solution that automatically scales and is able to process large amounts of data.

Cons:

When used very intensely the cost do rise, but still the costs are comparable to other Cloud Providers' NoSQL solutions like Cassandra, GCP BigTable etc.

Reasons for switching to Amazon DynamoDB

I wanted to move my entire infrastructure to AWS.

Khan Nida Khanum A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

The goto NoSql db that one should go to for easy and fast access

Overall the experience have been very good. It's very easy to understand. We had switched from mongodb NoSql db to Amazon dynamodb and comparatively it was easy to migrate.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Amazon dynamodb is a NoSql db that supports key value pair. It is easy to configure and use in your java code through some function calls. The access control is excellent and we can easily provide restricted access to different type of users.

Cons:

The size of data that dynamodb can store in one key value pair or an item is limited to 400 KB. For large data you have to rely on other storage like S3 and then use that referance location in your dynamodb. That should be supported out of the box in dynamodb.

Reasons for switching to Amazon DynamoDB

Many of our services were in AWS so we had planned to move NoSql db too to AWS using dynamodb

Harish V.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

Amazon DynamoDB for Software Engineers

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We used DynamoDB global tables to replicate data across multiple regions which resulted in a higher level of redundancy. All this happens in real time to ensure seamless fail over during a disaster while minimising the data lost and it helped in a lot.

Cons:

It provides us limited querying options which can be tedious task and the costs for the service can be hard to predict.

Flavio M.

Verified reviewer

Banking

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Consistent Database

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Reliable and stable Data base, interface is simple and easy to find everything that I need. The integration with other AWS Services is great. No limit for Data Storage. Query the database is quite simple and intuitive.

Cons:

I have no complains about Dynamo, think it's the best Data Base I've been using, but maybe add more features in settings, to personalize the way I want to visualize tables.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Java developer on Amazon DynamoDB.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A great scaling NoSQL database on the AWS platform. Easy to administer once you're already using AWS. Integrates great with other services on the platform. Easy to configure security.

Cons:

Limited data querying. High entry threshold. Requires understanding because of its differences. It's more difficult with integration when you're not using the AWS platform.

Reasons for choosing Amazon DynamoDB

In the project I was working on, we were already using Amazon's platform. It was easy to use DynamoDb and integrate it with existing services.

Verified

Reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

DynamoDB Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like how it provides you quick and easy access to data that you need to query. How it stores data in a way that even users without an IT background can quickly have a grasp into is a great thing.

Cons:

I like least about it is when querying a lot of data, it won't let you easily sort the dates to show the most recent unless you go over each page there is and go back to the first page.

Verified

Reviewer

Program Development

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Amazon DynamoDB for any application that requires fast and scalable NoSQL database services

I highly recommend Amazon DynamoDB for any application that requires fast and scalable NoSQL database services. Its ease of use, performance, and integration with other AWS services make it a top choice for many organizations. Just be aware of the costs associated with the service and plan accordingly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One of the biggest benefits of DynamoDB is its scalability. You can easily scale up or down based on your needs, and the service will automatically handle the management and distribution of your data across multiple servers

Cons:

While DynamoDB integrates well with other AWS services, it may be more difficult to integrate with non-AWS services or tools.

Xolani M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

The perfect database for your OLTP ( Online transaction processing ) Applications

I have used many databases including Relational databases and NoSQL database, so far DynamoDB handles all concerns regarding performance , scaling and ability to be integrated in my use cases.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1. High performance database with a latency of single digit in seconds 2. Fully managed, all security concerns handled by AWS. 3. Built to support Single Table design 4. Works with most used frameworks. 5. Offers ability of Global tables for scaling into multiple regions

Cons:

Since it is not used for Analytical purpose, You really need to understand your data model and have clear access patterns to use DynamoDB at it maximum. If you want to aggregated data like counts of certain records , you need to use an external tool.

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Reviewer

Higher Education

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

A Flexible way to do NoSQL databases on AWS

Despite the learning curve, and some initial problems with unknowingly attempting to use reserved words as keys, DynamoDB has been stable and performant since it has been deployed to production.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

DynamoDB and NoSQL databases in general are really flexible in terms of what and how you store your information. The JSON structure of data makes is easy to work with when integrating with other services like AWS Lambdas and AWS API Gateways.

Cons:

There is a steep learning curve for someone coming from a SQL/relational database background. Lots of weird optimization tricks. AWS does not do a good job about letting you know if you accidentally use a reserved word (things just break).

Reasons for choosing Amazon DynamoDB

We were developing a new API that needed to be able to read and write data. We were unsure what the final data structures would look like, so DynamoDB gave us flexibility in the data structure during development.

Verified

Reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Infinitely scalable but very limited for analytics

Using DynamoDB as our backend database, we save time by not spending too much resources on planning, provisioning, and troubleshooting resource constraints and issues. Instead, we're able to allocate that into actual development work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

DynamoDB scales very easily. We don't need to manage resources (CPU, memory, disk) like we used to when using relational databases.

Cons:

Using data stored in DynamoDB for analytics is very difficult. Other than syncing data to a separate database for querying, I don't think there's a built-in option for this in DynamoDB.

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