How to choose a partition key for DynamoDB

• 11, 18, 2019
•  bullgare
•  Databases
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Here’s an article about how to do it right: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/choosing-the-right-dynamodb-partition-key/. The main ideas — partition key should have a good cardinality, but at the same time it should be queried easily as all the queries to DynamoDB should start with PartitionKey=…, as they are hashes.