TTL: Time to Live
Explore how TTL in DynamoDB enables automatic deletion of expired records based on a configured epoch timestamp. Understand its setup, benefits, limitations, and how it helps maintain efficient database management by reducing manual cleanup.
There are times when keeping stored information forever might not be required. For this, it would be necessary to implement processes that are constantly cleaning a database. However, these types of processes could generate an operational load for a company or, much worse, they eventually tend to fail. That is why DynamoDB offers us a functionality in which we can configure the lifetime of the records in the database.
Understanding Time To Live
Time to live (TTL) is a concept that’s been around in the tech industry for a long time. It allows us to indicate how long a record, an object or any other piece of data managed by a system is valid. Normally, after the time ...