[D3T1S03] Amazon DynamoDB design puzzlers

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AWS DATA & AI ROADSHOW 2024
Hyuk Lee
DynamoDB SA
AWS
Amazon DynamoDB design puzzlers

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Agenda
We’re going to collaboratively explore a set of design puzzlers:
1. Starter puzzlers to get us warmed up
2. Three main dish deep dives
3. Dessert

Starter puzzlers
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I’m seeing 10,000 requests per
second but am consuming
20,000 WCUs. Why?
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10,000 consuming 20,000
Oh, and my table’s average item size is under 1kb, does that change
your answer?
Could indexes have something to do with this?
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I want to sample 1,000 random
items from my table. How?
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Pulling a random item
How does a scan work?
How does a parallel scan work?
How many total segments can
we use with a parallel scan?
Is there a need to use limit?
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Main dish -
choosing userID as partition key
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I configured userID for my
partition key because it has
high cardinality.
Am I safe now?
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High cardinality for partition key
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High cardinality
Sorted by date time
Filter by Status

It makes sense that you choose DeviceID for partition key in IoT
workload.
What if a specific user can generate 10,000x traffic more than a
normal user? “Heavy users”
Can you always use userID for partition key and other attributes for
sort key?
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Main dish -
always single table design?
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I am running an IoT service and
want to provide the last 3
months of data to customer.
Do I use single table or
multiple tables on DynamoDB?
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IoT service with the last 3 months of data
Will you design it with single table or multiple tables?
Here is your options with single table design.
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Single Table
Throughput = provisioned vs on-demand mode
Storage = Standard vs Standard-IA
TTL enabled

IoT service with the last 3 months of data
Here is one of your options with multiple table design.
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March April May
No writes, some reads
and lots of data
No writes, some reads
and lots of data
Many writes & reads
and starting zero data
On-demand mode &
Standard-IA
On-demand mode &
Standard-IA
Provisioned mode &
Reserved Capacity &
Standard
We are here!
“Access pattern matters a lot!”

Main dish -
is on-demand mode unlimited?
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I created a table using on-
demand mode. A new large
scale service will open next
week. Am I safe now?
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Is on-demand mode unlimited?
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I need 1M WCU/RCU in my account.
How can I pre-warm my table?
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Dessert
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I have PITR on a large table.
Someone ran a bad bulk job
Monday at noon that deleted
important items. How can I
recover?
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PITR
Is there anything better than a full table restore at 11:50 AM?
Hint: Don’t do a restore, do an export
Hint: Don’t do a full export
Consider an incremental export from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM that puts
on disk the OldImage and NewImage of all modified items!
What’s the cost savings if the table is 100 TB?
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Incremental export to Amazon S3
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Incremental export file format
{ "Metadata":
{ "WriteTimestampMicros": "1680109764000000" },
"Key": { "PK": { "S": "CUST#200" } },
"OldImage": {
"PK": { "S": "CUST#200" },
"FirstName": { "S": "Mary" },
"LastName": { "S": "Grace" } },
"NewImage": {
"PK": { "S": "CUST#200" },
"FirstName": { "S": "Mary" },
"LastName": { "S": "Smith" } } }
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Write intensive
• IoT / Monitoring
• User activity logging
• Tracking
• Notification service
• Step count
• Chatting
• Cart
• Recommendation
Consistent latency
• Ad
• Session store
• User profile
• Metadata store for assets
• Product detail
• Purchase history
No Ops
• DevOps
• Global service
• No versions
• No maintenance
DynamoDB usage patterns

Thank you!
Hyuk Lee
hyuklee@amazon.com

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