Does Dynamodb Have Read Replicas?

DynamoDB Cross-region Replication
Read replicas are updated asynchronously as DynamoDB acknowledges a write operation as successful once it has been accepted by the master table. ... Faster reads, for customers in multiple regions by delivering data faster by reading a DynamoDB table from the closest AWS data center.

How many replicas does DynamoDB provide per table?

Any given global table can only have one replica table per AWS Region.

How does DynamoDB replicate?

Amazon DynamoDB now supports cross-region replication, a new feature that automatically replicates DynamoDB tables across AWS regions. ... You only pay for Amazon DynamoDB resources for the replica tables, reading from Streams, the SQS queue, and the EC2 instance that runs the cross-region application.

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