DynamoDB Global Tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-master, active-active database.
Global tables provide 99.999% availability, increased application resiliency, and improved business continuity.
Global table’s automatic cross-region replication capability helps achieve fast, local read and write performance and regional fault tolerance for database workloads.
Applications can now perform reads and writes to DynamoDB in AWS regions around the world, with changes in any region propagated to every region where a table is replicated.
Global Tables help in building applications to advantage of data locality to reduce overall latency.
Global Tables supports eventual consistency & strong consistency for same region reads, but only eventual consistency for cross-region reads.
Global Tables replicates data among regions within a single AWS account and currently does not support cross-account access.
Global Tables uses the Last Write Wins approach for conflict resolution.
Global Tables Working
Global Table is a collection of one or more replica tables, all owned by a single AWS account.
A single Amazon DynamoDB global table can only have one replica table per AWS Region.
Each replica table stores the same set of data items, has the same table name, and the same primary key schema.
When an application writes data to a replica table in one Region, DynamoDB automatically replicates the writes to other replica tables in the other AWS Regions.
Global Tables requires DynamoDB streams enabled with New and Old image settings.
DynamoDB Global Tables vs. Aurora Global Databases
AWS Certification Exam Practice Questions
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A company is building a web application on AWS. The application requires the database to support read and write operations in multiple AWS Regions simultaneously. The database also needs to propagate data changes between Regions as the changes occur. The application must be highly available and must provide a latency of single-digit milliseconds. Which solution meets these requirements?
Amazon DynamoDB global tables
Amazon DynamoDB streams with AWS Lambda to replicate the data
An Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster with cluster mode enabled and multiple shards
