Disaster Recovery with DynamoDB Global Tables

DynamoDB provides built-in support for cross regional data replication using a solution AWS calls global tables. This article shows how to build and run an application in Kubernetes that uses global tables to replicate data between regions. In the event of a regional disaster, a secondary Kubernetes cluster in a secondary region has all the data from DynamoDB replicated locally to continue operation. How global tables work A DynamoDB global table is a set of multiple replica tables....

November 20, 2023 · 11 min · Kevin Sookocheff