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DynamoDB Streams and Event-Driven Apps

Explore how DynamoDB Streams capture real-time database changes to enable event-driven applications. Understand stream view types and integrate with AWS Lambda to build responsive systems like real-time notifications. This lesson helps you apply streams to enhance app reactivity without polling.

DynamoDB Streams enable developers to build powerful, event-driven applications that respond instantly to database changes. It is a feature of Amazon DynamoDB that captures a real-time, ordered sequence of changes made to your table. Think of it like a continuous, chronological log that records every modification to your table's data. These streams allow applications to react to data changes immediately, without continuously polling the database.

Enabling and configuring DynamoDB streams

Enabling Streams is easy. From the ...