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Item Best Practices

Explore effective DynamoDB item best practices to manage size constraints, choose intuitive short attribute names, compress large data, split complex items, and link to S3 for oversized content to optimize your NoSQL database design.

Size limit

We can’t have an item bigger than 400 KB in a DynamoDB table. However, we can have as many items as we want in a table.

Attribute names

Attribute names like Book_id are stored within attributes and are therefore counted towards an item’s size. Therefore, we should use short, intuitive ...