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Amazon DynamoDB Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the scalability of Amazon DynamoDB, benefiting from its automatic scaling and flexibility under heavy loads. (6 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use of Amazon DynamoDB, finding it simple to create and manage NoSQL databases. (4 mentions)
Users value the easy integrations of Amazon DynamoDB, enhancing their experience with other AWS services and tools. (4 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use and scalability of Amazon DynamoDB, benefiting from its high-performance and flexible features. (4 mentions)
Users value the seamless integration with AWS services, enhancing overall functionality and user experience with DynamoDB. (4 mentions)
Users find DynamoDB relatively costly with high expenses and limited query flexibility complicating their experience. (5 mentions)
Users find the complexity of the pricing model and search functionality challenging, requiring careful data organization and management. (2 mentions)
Users experience a difficult learning curve with DynamoDB, requiring careful data organization and understanding of its NoSQL architecture. (2 mentions)
Users find the inefficient search cumbersome and costly, requiring precise access patterns and lacking full-text search capabilities. (2 mentions)
Users note a steep learning curve with DynamoDB due to its NoSQL nature and limited query flexibility. (2 mentions)

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Amazon DynamoDB Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

It offers free tier for one year then you can choose pay per use model and the cost associated with AWS services are less when compared to other service providers s.

It has rich documentation which you can refer and work with the resources and the scalability and elasticity features of AWS are best as you can scale your application as per needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

I don't have any dislikes with AWS services and I think it's one of the best service provider when compared to Azure and GCP and offers wide range of services to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The UI (User Interface) of AWS Console is very productive, and you can easily find resources for your usecases on Internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

AWS Console UI changes so frequently that if you left working for 30 days, you will see a new UI for the services that you have worked on past Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The below-mentioned are the most liked points in AWS Cloud by me

1. AWS Cloud has the best customer service

2. AWS Cloud is the most cost-effective and reliable

3. AWS Cloud services are easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The most disliked part of AWS cloud is the complicated user guide on some services, which I had to refer to other materials online. Also, the pay-as-you-use backfires when not taken care of and costs you a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best thing I found about DynamoDB is you can use it as a key value database as well as a colunar database. also it can used as a database if you want to keep a lot of data dumb like logging data. it is also farely easy to itegrate using amazon SDK and itegrates well with other amazon web sevices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

what i dislike about DynamoDb is it us bit slow to use over network. also using it as a key value database doesnt make much sense for smaller dataset. other cache based in momory database works much better like redis or even aerospike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

That the DynamoDB is very simple and easy to use and maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The fact that we can't create multiple indecex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rupesh K.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I consider Amazon DynamoDB as one of the top serverless NoSQL databases in the market and there are many things that I like about Amazon DynamoDB,

1. Integration - I love it how you can integrate Amazon DynamoDB with other services such as AWS Glue for better productivity.

2. Cost - You will be only paying for the resources you use, hence it's considered to be highly cost-effective.

3. Scalable -Amazon DynamoDB can handle large amounts of data and it's highly scalable depending on your data requirements. So with this, you can process complex and large data by integrating with AWS Glue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

While Amazon DynamoDB is a great service with many features, it has a few disadvantages as well,

1. Restriction - Amazon DynamoDB lacks the support of complex transactions which is not good for all cases.

2. Data types - Amazon DynamoDB only support structured data.

3. Query capability - It does not support complex queries of SQL which is a huge drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditya C.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon Dynamodb is really a revolution amongst DBs of coming age. It is very easy to use and highly efficient in terms of performing operations on your data. The best thing about it is it's simplicity.Everything is there in front of you..you just have to click buttons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Sometimes the quering part can be troublesome if you're coming from using dbs like Mongodb in the past. Also I believe that the pricing is a little over the budget for new developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash P.
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What do you like best about AWS Databases?

AWS DynamoDB is a no SQL database which is fully managed by Amazon. It is fully managed, Scalable, Set up , Configuration by Amazon. Traffic handling is a main feature of DynamoDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

It can impact on cost if not provisioned correctly and data scanning cost too high of beginner level of users.

Limited regional availability, not available for all the AWS regions.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arslan Nisar M.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

As a user I like Amazon DynamoDB for its seamless scalability, high performance, and hassle-free management. Allowing me to focus on developing my applications while ensuring data durability, reliability and integration with the AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

As a user I find Amazon DynamoDB's pricing range complex and potentially costly for the applications with unpredictable or varying workloads. Additionally, advanced quering capabilities and data modeling can also be challenging for some use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I have used Dynamo DB for building my college App integration with App sync through Amplify is really easy as Dynamo Db server less I didn't need to manage servers and I only focused on frontend.

Dynamo Db is really faster . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dynamo DB didn't allow joins that was the downside I faced I kept all attributes in one table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.