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Accelerate Your DynamoDB Performance with DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Alice the Architect
AWS in Plain English
5 min readOct 30, 2024

When building high-performance applications on Amazon DynamoDB, it’s essential to optimize for speed and scalability. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, in-memory caching service designed to accelerate read performance for DynamoDB tables, reducing latency to microseconds and enabling applications to handle millions of requests per second with ease. Let’s explore DAX’s features, capabilities, and how it complements other AWS services for a complete, scalable data solution.

source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DAX.concepts.html

Key Features of DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Fully Managed and Highly Available

DAX is fully managed by AWS, meaning you won’t have to worry about infrastructure management, setup, or maintenance. DAX nodes are automatically distributed across multiple Availability Zones, ensuring high availability and durability. AWS handles all aspects of server maintenance, allowing you to focus solely on application development.

In-Memory Caching for Microsecond Latency

As an in-memory cache for DynamoDB, DAX stores recently accessed data in memory, significantly improving data retrieval speeds. While DynamoDB typically provides single-digit millisecond response times, DAX…

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