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Understanding Partitions

Explore how DynamoDB uses partitions to distribute data evenly across servers using consistent hashing. Understand the importance of selecting uniformly distributed partition keys to avoid bottlenecks and ensure efficient database performance during table creation.

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DynamoDB uses consistent hashing to save data across multiple servers. The load is balanced across servers by assigning the various items to different servers based on their partition key. Now, it becomes important to have partition Keys that are uniformly ...