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DynamoDB DAX - Hands OnΒΆ

In DynamoDB Console, on the left side there is DAX available. It's not in the free tier so it will cost money.

You can select the node family.




In the 4th step we can choose the parameter group.

In them we can specify the Item TTL and Query TTL.

The defaults are both 5 minutes:

We can also choose the maintenence window:


Once the cluster is created, it will provide a cluster endpoint. This is the endpoint our applications should leverage.