Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Scalability
The most important design consideration was to have a system that can be scaled out easily
without affecting the application. DynamoDB uses the ring topology to arrange its nodes.
So, whenever there is a need to scale up the cluster, you can easily add a node to the exist-
ing cluster without affecting system performance. Make a note that as a DynamoDB ser-
vice user, we don't have access to scale up or scale down clusters; what we can do for this
is to increase or decrease the provisioned throughput.
