NoSQL Databases · Reviewed 21 Oct 2026

Amazon DynamoDB

Serverless NoSQL key-value database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.

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Amazon DynamoDB at a glance

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL key-value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale S174. It is used by developers and organizations to build scalable web, mobile, gaming, and generative AI applications that require low-latency data access S5. Its main practical value is eliminating infrastructure management while providing automatic scaling and built-in security, enabling teams to focus on application development S174 S5.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL key-value database service from AWS S174.
  • Core purpose: Provides low-latency data storage for applications that need to scale without infrastructure management S174.
  • Intended users: Developers and organizations building scalable web, mobile, gaming, and AI applications S5.
  • Product scope: A single database service, not a platform; includes features like on-demand capacity, vector search, and zero-ETL integrations S5.
  • Positioning: AWS positions DynamoDB as a serverless database that scales instantly with zero maintenance S174.
  • Claimed distinction: Single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, with submillisecond latency for nonrelational workloads S5 S174.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
DevelopersBuild scalable web and mobile applications with low-latency data access S1 S174.
Ecommerce teamsSupport high-traffic ecommerce systems with fast, scalable data storage S5.
Gaming companiesHandle gaming applications requiring high concurrency and low latency S5.
AI/ML practitionersImplement generative AI use cases like similarity search and RAG with vector search S5.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Serverless scalingAutomatically scales capacity to match application demand without manual provisioning S174.
On-demand capacityPay-per-request pricing with automatic scaling, eliminating capacity planning S164.
Provisioned capacitySet read/write capacity with optional reserved capacity for cost savings S164.
Native vector searchStore and query vector embeddings for generative AI applications S5.
Zero-ETL integrationIntegrate with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Bedrock for analytics and AI without pipelines S5.
Security featuresEncryption at rest and in transit, network isolation, and granular permissions S5 S174.
Table classesStandard and Standard-Infrequent Access storage classes for cost optimization S164.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
Amazon OpenSearch ServiceIntegrationZero-ETL integration for search and analytics on operational data S5.
Amazon BedrockIntegrationBuild generative AI applications with RAG workflows S5.
AWS MCP ServerAI interfaceEnables AI-assisted tools to access real-time transaction data S5.
Amazon EKSIntegrationIntegrate with Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads S5.
AWS IAM Roles AnywhereIntegrationGrant temporary access to AWS resources for workloads outside AWS S5.
Open standards (ODBC, JDBC, LangChain, LlamaIndex)IntegrationConnect with open-source frameworks and tools S5.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
On-demand, Standard$0.625 per million WRUs; $0.125 per million RRUs S164Storage $0.25 per GB-month S164Automatic scaling S164
On-demand, Standard-IA$0.78 per million WRUs; $0.155 per million RRUs S164Storage $0.10 per GB-month S164For rarely read data S164
Provisioned capacityNot published in the captured text S164Not published S164Reserved capacity up to 77% off for 3 years S164
Free tierNot established25 GB storage, 25 WCUs and 25 RCUs, 2.5 million stream reads S164Not established
AWS Free Tier trialNot establishedUp to $200 in credits for up to 6 months S164Not established

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
spr.com223.56 r's, 6 rs
netapp.com227.56 r's, 6 rs
gdt.com1126 r's
learn.microsoft.com1126 rs
comsoltx.com1136 r's
lucid.co1136 rs
dev.to1146 r's
leanix.net1146 rs
wigan.gov.uk1156 r's
interlaced.io1156 rs

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.5%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresUse agent mode for a conversational discovery experience that’s purpose-built for software procurement. Describe your use case, ask questions, compare products side-by-side, and generate customized purchasing proposals. Use the AI-enhanced search to discover solutions for your use case and start evaluating your options on product pages or in agent mode.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresAccess thousands of customer reviews and compare similar products side-by-side to help inform your decision. Request product demos and custom pricing directly from product pages to contact sellers quickly.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresLaunch templated Single Pane of Glass dashboards to get insights and granular visibility into your software procurement. For a high-level overview of your spend and agreements, access the procurement insights dashboard in the AWS Marketplace console.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresAI platforms that can help you simplify data experimentation and formulate deeper insights from disparate sources across your data estate.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions
featuresDS Smith Enhances Procurement Spending Insights Using ML-powered Solution from Exponentia.ai on AWShttps://aws.amazon.com/security/partner-solutions/
featuresWhether you're looking to cut costs, protect your data, reach more customers, or put AI to work, find the right cloud solution for your business in minutes, not months. Start on your own or get matched with a trusted AWS Partner.https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresWithout a dedicated IT team, every technology decision falls on you. You can't afford downtime, a data breach, or to fall behind on AI. The right cloud solution, set up by the right AWS Partner, handles the complexity—so you can stay focused on growing your business.https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresPut AI to work—without a big teamhttps://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresWith DeepRacer on AWS you'll learn fundamental concepts, skills, and machine learning (ML) training techniques that power foundation models in some of the most advanced generative AI applications today through the fun of racing autonomous cars.https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
featuresGenerative AI Deployments using Amazon SageMaker JumpStarthttps://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
featuresThis Guidance demonstrates how to deploy a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model provided by Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to create an asynchronous SageMaker endpoint with the ease of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/generative-ai-deployments-using-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/)https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
pricingFor AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning, Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount (measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year period.https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
pricingSavings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides significant savings on your AWS usage. This pricing model offers lower prices on AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning. Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount (measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year period.https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
pricingAmazon Bedrock offers select foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and Amazon for batch inference at a 50% lower price compared to on-demand inference pricing. To learn more about Batch, click [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference.html "batch tier"). Please refer to model list [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference-supported.html "model list").https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap2 first-page appearances across 6 r's, 6 rs

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

No citation-grounded independent review links were found.

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Case studyAmazon Web Servicescustomer case study — # Customer Success Stories Discover how customers across industries increase agility, optimize costs, and accelerate innovation using AWS ... (Customer Success Stories: Case Studies, Videos, Podcasts, Innovator stories)
Case studyNovartiscustomer case study — For one brand, patients previously took 5.5 minutes to go through the workflow necessary to apply for a secondary benefits card. (Novartis Builds Patient Support System on AWS for Enhanced Medication Assistance)
TestimonialOctopus Energytestimonial — Launched in 2016, Octopus Energy is an energy technology pioneer and the UK's latest tech unicorn. (Octopus Energy Video Testimonial)
TestimonialJohn Deeretestimonial — Harshal Joglekar, product owner of Cloud Adoption & Migration at John Deere, has 17 years of experience with the company. (John Deere Leverages AWS Services to Deliver Innovative and Sustainable Solutions and Industry-Transforming Products for the Agriculture Industry / Video Testimonial / AWS)
Case studyTowngascustomer case study — With its on-premises data center becoming increasingly costly and inflexible, The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) set out to migrate to the cloud and establish a more efficient and scalable infrastru… (Towngas migrates and modernizes on AWS / Case Study / AWS)

Independent mentions

  • Customer Testimonials / Hulu, Pinterest, Snap Inc. / AWS Support — AWS Support is there to help you achieve your goals by resolving issues, providing architectural guidance, ... Hear from our customers on the ways AWS Support has helped them. Visit AWS Support Customers for detailed case studies and customer videos.
  • Amazon Aurora Customer Testimonials / MySQL PostgreSQL Relational Database / Amazon Web Services — "Implementing and scaling hundreds of on-premises instances across the database fleet consumed all database team member resources for many weeks and was a relatively low value- ... , which could take a full day for each instance. Not to mention the fact
  • AWS Lambda – Case Studies — ## AWS Lambda Customer Case Studies Below you will find Customer Case Studies and learn how other enterprises accelerated their business using AWS Lambda. ... Thomson Reuters uses a serverless architecture to process up to4,000 events per second for its
  • Amazon CloudSearch Testimonials — integrated multi-channel programs. We use Amazon CloudSearch and have been impressed with its performance. CloudSearch also eliminated some administrative headaches we experienced with the Solr implementation we had been using. We are excited about the
  • AWS Serverless Customer Success — > With the AWS serverless platform, we decreased customer control system alerts by 90 percent and reduced infrastructure costs by 85 percent. Stefan Lichtenberger, Program Manager, Siemens Gas and Power

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipData transfer in and out. DynamoDB does not charge for inbound data transfer, and it does not charge for data transferred between DynamoDB and other AWS services within the same AWS Region (in other words, $0.00 persource
Contact and supportWhat if your CX team could anticipate a customer's needs and resolve them before they even pick up the phone? Agentic AI makes it possible - and with agentic CX designer, business users can build those experiences themsesource
Legal and privacyBeginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.source
Security and complianceAWS Databases offer a high-performance, secure, and reliable foundation to power agentic AI and data-driven applications that drive value for your business and customers. AWS high-performance databases support any worklosource
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered1994-11-01—
Domain expires2027-10-31—

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Managed Relational Database - Amazon RDS Pricing - Amazon Web ServicesStatus pagePublic service-status information. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Cloud-based service, fully managed by AWS S174.S174
Platforms and appsAccessible via web; no desktop or mobile apps mentioned S174.S174
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Supports AWS MCP Server for AI-assisted access S5.S5
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsSingle-digit millisecond performance at any scale S174.S174
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
20

Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
First archived2008-08-19 — web archive
TLS certificateAmazon, valid, expires 2027-03-04
Security headersHSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedCSP, Referrer-Policy
Server headerServer
Nameserversns-1860.awsdns-40.co.uk, ns-905.awsdns-49.net

Not measurable: rdap: HTTP 404; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 99/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 2
  • Notices: 5

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningTitle length should be reviewed67https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
warningTitle length should be reviewed82https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed195https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed211https://aws.amazon.com/data/resources/data-foundation-for-agentic-ai/
noticePage is marked noindex—https://aws.amazon.com/resources/analyst-reports/gartner/global-mq-ardm-26-magic-quadrant-for-strategic-cloud-platform-services/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed177https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed212https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Cloud Computing Services - Amazon Web Services (AWS)1146482 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/
200AWS Support and Customer Service Contact Info \Amazon Web Services1113639 ms
200AWS Marketplace: Homepage11660508 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
200AWS re:Invent 2026 \The Premier Cloud and AI Conference \Nov 30-Dec 4, Las Vegas11371
200Build & Ship AI Agents: From Pilot to Production – AWS1189165 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/ai/build-ai-agents/
200Get started fast with AWS \Free account and spending controls1207173 ms
200Building a Data Foundation for Agentic AI \AWS Guide1484293 ms
200Gartner \Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services1126240 ms
200AI Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses - AWS1190484 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/artificial-intelligence-small-medium-business/
200What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News188048 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/new/
200AWS Blogs - Cloud news & innovation \Amazon Web Services (AWS)192738 ms
200Why Choose AWS? The World's Leading Cloud \Amazon Web Services1153853 ms
200Getting Started - Cloud Computing Tutorials for Building on AWS1128059 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/
200Cloud Security – Amazon Web Services (AWS)1152543 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/security/
200Cloud Compliance - Amazon Web Services (AWS)1136057 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

22

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct47.6%
search21.1%
search organic16.2%
search paid4.9%
social4.1%
social organic3.8%
social paid0.2%
referrals19.6%
paid referrals3.3%
mail2.8%
gen ai1.5%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any direct competitors for DynamoDB. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for provisioned capacity, no customer reviews or testimonials, and no information on data export or ownership. Open questions remain about specific performance benchmarks and compliance certifications.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from aws.amazon.com, including product, pricing, and database overview pages. The evidence catalog includes 179 tokens from these pages. External proof search was enabled but no verification requests were made. Limitations include the absence of first-party customer reviews and detailed technical documentation beyond marketing pages.

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