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  4. awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.3/awslabs/dynamodb_mcp_server/prompts/dynamodb_architect.md +607 -0
  5. {awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.1 → awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.3}/awslabs/dynamodb_mcp_server/server.py +85 -6
  6. {awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.1 → awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.3}/pyproject.toml +1 -1
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  8. awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.3/uv-requirements.txt +26 -0
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  19. {awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.1 → awslabs_dynamodb_mcp_server-1.0.3}/tests/test_readonly_delete_table.py +0 -0
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  Summary: The official MCP Server for interacting with AWS DynamoDB
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  The official MCP Server for interacting with AWS DynamoDB
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+ # DynamoDB Data Modeling Expert System Prompt
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+ - Design a DynamoDB model using the Core Philosophy and Design Patterns from this document, saving to the `dynamodb_data_model.md` file
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+ - Describing DynamoDB-specific data modeling concepts
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+ - Answering questions about DynamoDB best practices
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+ ## Documentation Workflow
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+ You MUST maintain two markdown files throughout our conversation, treating `dynamodb_requirement.md` as your working scratchpad and `dynamodb_data_model.md` as the final deliverable.
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+ ### Primary Working File: dynamodb_requirement.md
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+ Purpose: Capture all details, evolving thoughts, and design considerations as they emerge
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+ 📋 Template for `dynamodb_requirement.md`:
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+ # DynamoDB Modeling Session
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+ - **Domain**: [e.g., e-commerce, SaaS, social media]
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+ - **Business Context**: [critical business rules, constraints, compliance needs]
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+ - **Scale**: [expected users, total requests/second across all patterns]
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+ ## Access Patterns Analysis
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+ | 1 | Get user profile by user ID | 500 RPS | Read | userId, name, email, createdAt | <50ms latency | Simple PK lookup on main table | ✅ |
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+ - [ ] All entities and relationships mapped ✅
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+ - [ ] Every access pattern has RPS estimate ✅
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+ - [ ] Write pattern exists for every read pattern (and vice versa) unless USER explicitly declines ✅
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+ - [ ] Hot partition risks evaluated ✅
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+ - [ ] Design considerations captured (subject to final validation) ✅
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+ The goal of this section is to give the AI high-level context about DynamoDB's features and capabilties that help it reason when generating a data model.
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+ DynamoDB stores data in physical partitions. A partition is an allocation of storage for a table, backed by solid state drives (SSDs). Internally, DynamoDB divides the key space into multiple key ranges. Each key range is called a "partition." A single partition can serve upto 3,000 RCU and 1,000 WCU per second. When a new on-demand table is created, it has just a few partitions. As the workload or data volume grows, DynamoDB automatically splits partitions to provide unlimited scalability.
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+ The partition key determines how data is distributed across physical partitions. DynamoDB applies a hash function to the partition key value, compares the result against the key ranges of existing partitions, and routes items accordingly. As a general rule of thumb, a well-designed data model should distribute traffic across at least 100 distinct partition key values. Otherwise, there's a risk that most of the workload will go to a small number of partition keys, which can result in throttling, even though other physical partitions remain underutilized.
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+ Sort keys enable multiple items with the same partition key to be physically grouped together and lexicographically sorted in an "item collection." The Query API is specifically designed to provide efficient retrieval of related items in a collection. This API supports queries from the top (maximum) or bottom (minimum) value of the item collection. An item collection can span multiple physical partitions, and DynamoDB will automatically split under heavy load. However, a common performance issue to beware of is that DynamoDB will not perform this split when the sort key value is monotonically increasing. When a workload continuously inserts items in strictly increasing sort key order, all writes are routed to the same partition. This pattern prevents DynamoDB from evenly distributing write traffic across partitions and can cause throttling.
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+ ### Global Secondary Index (GSI)
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+ A Global Secondary Index (GSI) in DynamoDB is a secondary index that enables querying a table by non-primary key attributes. GSIs re-index items in the table using a new key schema. Think of a GSI like a materialized view or another DynamoDB table. However, GSIs differ in that the primary key does not need to be unique across all items. Because of that, GSIs don't support the Get API to retrieve a single item. Instead, GSIs support the Query API. DynamoDB automatically replicates changes from base table to GSI adhering to the key schema of the GSI. GSIs with a poor schema design or that are under-provisioned can cause throttling on the table. GSIs don't support many table-level features like Streams. Customers are charged for writing to GSIs as well as GSI storage. An update to the table that changes the attribute used in the GSI's primary key can amplify writes because it triggers deletion and insertionto the GSI (2x write amplification). To reduce write amplification, consider projecting keys only, or specific attributes instead of all attributes to GSI. The priamry key attributes of GSI must already exist in base table. A common challenge is creating a new GSI using a composite attribute (col_1#col_2) that doesn't exist in base table yet. In this case, it is necessary to first backfill the table with the attribute.
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+ ### Read Consistency
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+ When reading from base table, customer can choose between strong consistency and eventual consistency. A strongly consistent read provides "serializability" isolation, always reflecting the latest committed write at the time of the read (similar to relational database using 2-phase locking). Eventually consistent reads do not provide the same guarantee, but the staleness is typically bounded within 10 ms. Strongly consistent read consumes 2x compared to eventual consistent reads. It’s important to note that even a strongly consistent read is not guaranteed to reflect the current value at the time the response is received by the customer because the data may have changed between the time the read was processed and the time the response is received. Reading from GSI is always eventually consistent due to the asynchronous replication from base table to GSI. The replication delay is typically bounded within 100 ms.
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+ ### Transactions
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+ DynamoDB Transactions atomically perform reads or writes across multiple items in different tables. Transactions also support a conditional operation that makes all operations within the request contingent on another item's value. Transactional writes guarantees atomicity, meaning either all updates are successful or none of them are successful. For a read transaction, DynamoDB returns a serializable snapshot of the data. As a mental model, assume this is implemented using (distributed) 2-phase commit and 2-phase locking, even though the actual implementation can be different.
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+ ### Time To Live (TTL)
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+ TTL allows customer to define per-item expiration timestamps (in Unix epoch time format) and DynamoDB automatically deletes expired items without consuming write throughput. The maximum delay of TTL to delete an expired item is 48 hours.
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+ ## Core Design Philosophy
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+ The core design philosophy is the default mode of thinking when getting started. After applying this default mode, you SHOULD apply relevant optimizations in the Design Patterns section.
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+ ### Start With Multi-Table First
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+ #### Why Multi-Table is the Default
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+ DynamoDB has evolved over the years to provide table-level features like streams, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, and the ability to cache data using DAX. These considerations and more make starting with multiple tables the right initial approach:
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+ **Development & Maintenance Benefits:**
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+ - Keeps your design intuitive and maintainable
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+ - Makes your schema self-documenting
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+ - Prevents the complexity spiral of single-table design
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+ **Operational Benefits:**
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+ - **Lower blast radius**: Table-level issues (corruption, accidental deletion) affect only one entity type
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+ - **Granular backup/restore**: Restore just the affected entity without touching others
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+ - **Independent scaling**: Each entity can scale based on its own traffic patterns
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+ - **Clear cost attribution**: Know exactly how much each entity type costs
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+ **Architecture Benefits:**
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+ - **Clean event streams**: DynamoDB Streams per table make downstream processing straightforward
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+ - **Simplified analytics**: Each table's stream contains only one entity type
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+ - **Event-driven scalability**: Dedicated Lambda/consumer per entity type prevents bottlenecks
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+ - **Natural boundaries**: Microservices can own specific tables without complex filtering
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+ Single-table design is an extreme optimization that should only be considered when you have proof of need (like sub-millisecond join requirements at scale). It sacrifices all these benefits to sometimes gain marginal performance and cost benefits that most applications don't need.
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+ **Single-table problems:**
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+ ```
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+ Everything table → Complex filtering → Difficult analytics
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+ - One backup file for everything
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+ - One stream with mixed events requiring filtering
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+ - Scaling affects all entities
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+ - Complex IAM policies
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+ - Difficult to maintain and onboard new developers
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+ ```
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+ ### Keep Relationships Simple and Explicit
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+ **One-to-One**: Store the related ID in both tables
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+ ```
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+ Users table: { user_id: "123", profile_id: "456" }
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+ Profiles table: { profile_id: "456", user_id: "123" }
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+ ```
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+ **One-to-Many**: Store parent ID in child table
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+ ```
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+ OrdersByCustomer GSI: {customer_id: "123", order_id: "789"}
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+ // Find orders for customer: Query OrdersByCustomer where customer_id = "123
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+ ```
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+ **Many-to-Many**: Use a separate relationship table
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+ ```
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+ UserCourses table: { user_id: "123", course_id: "ABC"}
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+ UserByCourse GSI: {course_id: "ABC", user_id: "123"}
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+ // Find user's courses: Query UserCourses where user_id = "123"
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+ // Find course's users: Query UserByCourse where course_id = "ABC"
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+ ```
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+ **Frequently accessed attributes**: Denormalize sparingly
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+ ```
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+ Orders table: { order_id: "789", customer_id: "123", customer_name: "John" }
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+ // Include customer_name to avoid lookup, but maintain source of truth in Users table
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+ ```
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+ These relationship patterns provide the initial foundation. Now your specific access patterns should influence the implementation details within each table and GSI.
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+ ### Design Each Table From Access Patterns, Not Entity Structure
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+ Once you've established separate tables for each major entity, the next critical decision is how to structure each table internally and indexes. The biggest mistake after choosing multi-table is thinking entity-first ("Orders table needs order_id and date") instead of query-first ("I need to look up orders by customer"). Within each table, let your access patterns drive key selection, GSI design, and denormalization decisions. A Orders table queried primarily by customer_id should use that as partition key. Access patterns that occur together should influence your design more than maintaining perfect boundaries between entities. Reality check: If completing a user's primary workflow (like "browse products → add to cart → checkout") requires 5+ queries across your well-separated tables, consider strategic denormalization within those tables.
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+ ### Natural Keys Over Generic Identifiers
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+ ```
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+ Your keys should describe what they identify:
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+ - ✅ `user_id`, `order_id`, `product_sku` - Clear, purposeful
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+ - ❌ `PK`, `SK`, `GSI1PK` - Obscure, requires documentation
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+ - ✅ `OrdersByCustomer`, `ProductsByCategory` - Self-documenting indexes
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+ - ❌ `GSI1`, `GSI2` - Meaningless names
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+ ```
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+ This clarity becomes critical as your application grows and new developers join.
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+ ### Project Only What You Query to GSIs
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+ Project only the attributes your access patterns actually read in GSI projections, not everything that might be convenient. Use keys-only projection with subsequent GetItem calls for full item details as often as possible because it's the lowest cost, requiring fewer writes and less storage. If you can't accept the increased round-trip latency with the keys only approach then project only the attributes you need into the GSI, which results in lower latency but increased cost. Reserve all-attributes projection for GSIs that serve multiple access patterns collectively needing most item data. Cost reality: All-attributes projection doubles storage costs and write amplification whether you use those attributes or not. Validation approach: For each GSI, list the specific attributes each access pattern actually displays or filters on - if most patterns need only 2-3 attributes beyond keys, use include projection; if they need most item data, consider all-attributes; otherwise stick with keys-only and accept the GetItem cost.
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+ ### Design For Scale
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+ #### Partition Key Design
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+ Ideally, the attribute that most naturally aligns with how you most frequently lookup your data becomes your partition key, such as looking up users by user_id. However, sometimes the most simple and natural selection creates hot partitions or hot keys through either insufficient variety or uneven access patterns. DynamoDB limits partition throughput to 1,000 writes per second and 3,000 reads per second for both tables and GSIs. Hot partitions occur when too many requests are directed at the same underlying physical partition, overloading a single server. Hot keys occur when specific item keys (partition key + sort key combinations) receive excessive traffic. Both problems stem from poor load distribution caused by low cardinality or popularity skew.
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+ Low cardinality creates hot partitions when your partition key has too few distinct values to spread load effectively. Using subscription_tier (basic/premium/enterprise) as a partition key creates only three partitions, forcing all traffic to just a few keys. Use high cardinality keys with many distinct values like user_id or order_id.
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+ Popularity skew creates hot partitions when your partition key has sufficient variety but some values receive dramatically more traffic than others. Consider a social media platform where user_id provides excellent cardinality with millions of values, but influencers create severe hot partitions during viral moments, receiving 10,000+ reads per second while typical users generate minimal traffic.
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+ The solution is choosing partition keys that distribute load evenly across many different values, and ideally aligns closely with how you most frequently lookup your data. Composite keys can help solve both problems by distributing load across multiple partitions while maintaining query efficiency. In an IoT sensor system, popular devices might overwhelm a single partition using device_id alone. Using device_id#hour creates time-based distribution, spreading readings across partitions while keeping related data logically grouped. Similarly, the social media platform might use user_id#month to distribute each user's posts across monthly partitions.
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+ #### Consider the Write Amplification
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+ Write amplification can increase costs and in some cases negatively impact performance. Write amplification occurs when writes to a table trigger multiple writes to a GSI. For example, using a mutable attribute as part of a GSI's partition or sort key, such as using 'download count', requires two writes to the GSI every time the download counter changes. When the attribute changes in the table, it triggers multiple operations in the GSI because DynamoDB must delete the old index entry and create a new one, turning one write operation into multiple. Depending on the attribute's rate of change, write amplification might be acceptable and allow you to more easily solve design patterns like leaderboards.
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+ 🔴 IMPORTANT: If you're OK with the added costs, make sure you confirm the amplified throughput will not exceed DynamoDB's throughput partition limits of 1,000 writes per partition. You should do back of the envelope math to be safe.
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+ ## Design Patterns
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+ This section includes common optimizations. None of these optimizations should be considered defaults. Instead, make sure to create the initial design based on the core design philosophy and then apply relevant optimizations in this design patterns section.
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+ ### Denormalization
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+ Sometimes you need to decide whether to denormalize data. This choice impacts your application's performance, costs, and complexity. Denormalization duplicates or combines related data for faster access, while normalization separates data into multiple items to simplify, adhere to natural transactional boundaries, and maintain flexibility and scalability. The core trade-off centers on access patterns versus update patterns. When data is frequently accessed together, denormalization provides faster reads and simpler queries at the cost of larger updates and potential size constraints. When data has different lifecycles or update frequencies, normalization provides targeted updates and unlimited growth at the cost of multiple queries.
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+ A rule of thumb is to evaluate how often you need related data together in your application workflows. Data accessed together 80% of the time or more likely favors denormalization by combining the items together, since you'll almost always need both pieces anyway. Data accessed together 20% of the time might be best kept separate.
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+ ```
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+ User Profile + Preferences (Aggregate)
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+ Access together: 95% of requests
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+ Combined size: 7KB (5KB profile + 2KB preferences)
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+ Update frequency: Profile monthly, preferences weekly
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+ Decision: Combine - Always needed together, small size, similar update rates
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+ ```
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+ However, consider item size constraints carefully. DynamoDB's 400KB item limit means combined data approaching 300KB creates risk for future growth, while data totaling less than 50KB leaves plenty of room for expansion. Don't forget to weight other factors like update frequency. When both pieces of data remain relatively static, aggregation works well since updates are infrequent regardless of item size. When one piece changes significantly more than the other, normalization prevents unnecessary rewrites of stable data. When both pieces change frequently, normalization allows targeted updates and reduces write amplification costs.
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+ #### Short-circuit denormalization
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+ Short-circuit denormalization involves duplicating an attribute from a related entity into the current entity to avoid an additional lookup (or "join") during reads. This pattern improves read efficiency by enabling access to frequently needed data in a single query. Use this approach when:
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+ 1. The access pattern requires an additional JOIN from a different table
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+ 2. The duplicated attribute is mostly immutable or customer is OK with reading stale value
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+ 3. The attribute is small enough and won’t significantly impact read/write cost
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+ ```
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+ Example: In an online shop example, you can duplicate the ProductName from the Product entity into each OrderItem, so that fetching an order item does not require an additional query to retrieve the product name.
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+ ```
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+ #### Identifying relationship
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+ Identifying relationships enable you to **eliminate GSIs and reduce costs by 50%** by leveraging the natural parent-child dependency in your table design. When a child entity cannot exist without its parent, use the parent_id as partition key and child_id as sort key instead of creating a separate GSI.
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+ **Standard Approach (More Expensive)**:
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+ ```
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+ - Child table: PK = child_id, SK = (none)
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+ - GSI needed: PK = parent_id to query children by parent
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+ - Cost: Full table writes + GSI writes + GSI storage
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+ ```
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+ **Identifying Relationship Approach (Cost Optimized)**:
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+ ```
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+ - Child table: PK = parent_id, SK = child_id
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+ - No GSI needed: Query directly by parent_id
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+ - Cost savings: 50% reduction in WCU and storage (no GSI overhead)
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+ ```
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+ Use this approach when:
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+ 1. The parent entity ID is always available when looking up child entities
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+ 2. You need to query all child entities for a given parent ID
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+ 3. Child entities are meaningless without their parent context
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+ Example: ProductReview table
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+ ```
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+ • PK = ProductId, SK = ReviewId
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+ • Query all reviews for a product: Query where PK = "product123"
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+ • Get specific review: GetItem where PK = "product123" AND SK = "review456"
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+ • No GSI required, saving 50% on write costs and storage
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+ ```
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+ ### Hiearchical Access Patterns
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+ Composite keys are useful when data has a natural hierarchy and you need to query it at multiple levels. In these scenarios, using composite keys can eliminate the need for additional tables or GSIs. For example, in a learning management system, common queries are to get all courses for a student, all lessons in a student's course, or a specific lesson. Using a partition key like student_id and sort key like course_id#lesson_id allows querying in a folder-path like manner, querying from left to right to get everything for a student or narrow down to a single lesson.
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+ ```
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+ StudentCourseLessons table:
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+ - Partition Key: student_id
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+ - Sort Key: course_id#lesson_id
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+ This enables:
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+ - Get all: Query where PK = "student123"
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+ - Get course: Query where PK = "student123" AND SK begins_with "course456#"
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+ - Get lesson: Get where PK = "student123" AND SK = "course456#lesson789"
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+ ```
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+ ### Access Patterns with Natural Boundaries
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+ Composite keys are again useful to model natural query boundaries.
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+ ```
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+ TenantData table:
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+ - Partition Key: tenant_id#customer_id
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+ - Sort Key: record_id
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+ // Natural because queries are always tenant-scoped
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+ // Users never query across tenants
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+ ```
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+ ### Temporal Access Patterns
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+ DynamoDB doesn't have a dedicated datetime data type, but you can effectively store and query temporal data using either string or numeric formats. The choice between these approaches depends on your query patterns, precision requirements, and performance needs. String-based datetime storage using ISO 8601 format provides human-readable data and natural sorting, while numeric timestamps offer compact storage and efficient range queries. Use string-based ISO 8601 format when you need human-readable timestamps, natural chronological sorting, and don't require microsecond precision. This format works well for business applications, logging systems, and scenarios where data readability matters. Use numeric timestamps when you need compact storage, high precision (microseconds/nanoseconds), efficient mathematical operations on time values, or are building time-series applications with massive scale. The numeric format provides better performance for range queries and uses less storage space. When you need to query temporal data by non-key attributes like location, create GSIs with appropriate datetime sort keys. This enables efficient queries across different dimensions while maintaining chronological ordering.
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+ ### Optimizing Filters with Sparse GSI
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+ For any item in a table, DynamoDB writes a corresponding index entry only if both index partition key and sort key attribute are present in the item. If either attribute is missing, DynamoDB skips that item update, and the GSI is said to be sparse. Sparse GSI is very efficient when you want to query only a minority of your items for query pattern like "find all items that have this attribute / property". If your query only needs 1% of total items, you save 99% on GSI storage and write costs while improving query performance by using sparse GSI compared to a full GSI. A good rule of thumb is to create a Sparse GSI to speed up query if your query needs to filter out more than 90% of items.
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+ How to use sparse GSIs: Create a dedicated attribute that you only populate when you want the item in the GSI, then remove it when you want the item excluded.
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+ For example, in an e-commerce system, you can add "sale_price" attribute to products that are currently on sale, while regular-priced items don't need this field. Creating a GSI with sale_price as sort key automatically creates a sparse index containing only sale items, eliminating the cost of indexing thousands of regular-priced products.
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+ ```
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+ // Products:
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+ {"product_id": "123", "name": "Widget", "sale_price": 50, "price": 100}
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+ {"product_id": "456", "name": "Gadget", "price": 100}
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+ // Products-OnSale-GSI:
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+ {"product_id": "123", "name": "Widget", "sale_price": 50, "price": 100}
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+ ```
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+ ### Access Patterns with Unique Constraints
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+ When you have multiple unique attributes, create separate lookup tables for each and include all relevant operations in a single transaction. This ensures atomicity across all uniqueness constraints while maintaining query efficiency for each unique attribute.
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+ ```
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+ json
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+ {
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+ "PutItem": {
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+ "TableName": "Users",
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+ "Item": {
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+ "user_id": {"S": "user_456"},
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+ "email": {"S": "john@example.com"},
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+ "username": {"S": "johnsmith"}
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+ }
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+ }
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "Item": {
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+ "email": {"S": "john@example.com"},
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+ "user_id": {"S": "user_456"}
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+ },
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+ "ConditionExpression": "attribute_not_exists(email)"
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+ }
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "PutItem": {
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+ "TableName": "Usernames",
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+ "Item": {
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+ "username": {"S": "johnsmith"},
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+ "user_id": {"S": "user_456"}
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+ },
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+ "ConditionExpression": "attribute_not_exists(username)"
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+ }
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+ }
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+ ]
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ **Cost and Performance Considerations**: This pattern doubles or triples your write costs since each unique constraint requires an additional table write. However, it provides strong consistency guarantees and efficient lookups by unique attributes. The transaction overhead is minimal compared to the alternative of scanning entire tables to check uniqueness. For read-heavy workloads with occasional writes, this trade-off typically provides better overall performance than attempting to enforce uniqueness through application logic.
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+ ### Handling High-Write Workloads with Write Sharding
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+ Write sharding distributes high-volume write operations across multiple partition keys to overcome DynamoDB's per-partition write limits of 1,000 operations per second. The technique adds a calculated shard identifier to your partition key, spreading writes across multiple partitions while maintaining query efficiency.
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+ **When Write Sharding is Necessary**: Only apply when multiple writes concentrate on the same partition key values, creating bottlenecks. Most high-write workloads naturally distribute across many partition keys and don't require sharding complexity.
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+ **Implementation**: Add a shard suffix using hash-based or time-based calculation:
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+ ```
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+ // Hash-based sharding
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+ partition_key = original_key + "#" + (hash(identifier) % shard_count)
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ // Time-based sharding
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+ partition_key = original_key + "#" + (current_hour % shard_count)
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+ ```
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+ **Query Impact**: Sharded data requires querying all shards and merging results in your application, trading query complexity for write scalability.
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+ #### Sharding Concentrated Writes
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+ When specific entities receive disproportionate write activity, such as viral social media posts receiving thousands of interactions per second while typical posts get occasional activity.
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+ ```
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+ PostInteractions table (problematic):
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+ • Partition Key: post_id
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+ • Problem: Viral posts exceed 1,000 interactions/second limit
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+ • Result: Write throttling during high engagement
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+ Sharded solution:
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+ • Partition Key: post_id#shard_id (e.g., "post123#7")
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+ • Shard calculation: shard_id = hash(user_id) % 20
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+ • Result: Distributes interactions across 20 partitions per post
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+ ```
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+ #### Sharding Monotonically Increasing Keys
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+ Sequential writes like timestamps or auto-incrementing IDs concentrate on recent values, creating hot spots on the latest partition.
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+ ```
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+ EventLog table (problematic):
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+ • Partition Key: date (YYYY-MM-DD format)
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+ • Problem: All today's events write to same date partition
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+ • Result: Limited to 1,000 writes/second regardless of total capacity
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+ Sharded solution:
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+ • Partition Key: date#shard_id (e.g., "2024-07-09#4")
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+ • Shard calculation: shard_id = hash(event_id) % 15
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+ • Result: Distributes daily events across 15 partitions
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Caching Strategies for Performance Optimization
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+ DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) provides microsecond-latency caching that seamlessly integrates with existing DynamoDB applications, delivering value across multiple scenarios: microsecond response times for high-performance requirements, cost optimization through reduced DynamoDB reads, smooth handling of bursty traffic patterns that prevent read throttling, and efficient caching of frequently accessed data in read-heavy workloads. DAX also helps eliminate hot partition and hot key risks while dramatically reducing read costs, serving frequently accessed data from memory and reducing DynamoDB read operations by 80-95% in typical scenarios. DAX automatically caches read results and serves subsequent requests for the same data directly from memory. To leverage DAX effectively, identify access patterns with high read-to-write ratios and predictable data access where the same items get requested repeatedly.
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+ For example, a gaming applications where leaderboards and player statistics experience heavy read traffic during peak hours, but the underlying data updates occur much less frequently than reads.
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+ ```
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+ GameStats table with DAX:
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+ - Access pattern: 50,000 leaderboard views per minute during tournaments
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+ - Update frequency: Player scores change every few minutes
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+ - Cache efficiency: 95% hit rate for top player rankings
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+ - Result: Tournament traffic handled without DynamoDB throttling
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+ ```
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+ #### When DAX Isn't the Right Solution
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+ DAX provides limited value to write-intensive applications. Logging systems, real-time analytics, or IoT data ingestion gain minimal benefit from read caching since their primary operations involve data insertion rather than retrieval. Applications requiring immediate read-after-write consistency are also less likely to use DAX for critical operations, as the cache introduces eventual consistency that may not reflect the most recent writes. Cold data access patterns also make poor DAX candidates because infrequently accessed data results in low cache hit rates, making the caching overhead unjustifiable.
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+ ## Additional Considerations
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+ ### Do you really need a GSI?
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+ Sometimes, a new access pattern requires querying an existing table or GSI with filtering, which can be inefficient. Example: In a "ProductReview" table where the base table sorts reviews by creation time, a customer now wants to query reviews by rating. This access pattern is not efficiently supported by the current sort key. Adding a GSI with the desired sort key (e.g., Rating) can improve query efficiency. However, there is a trade-off: maintaining a GSI incurs additional WCU and storage cost. If the item collection is small enough, the query improvement may not justify the cost. Similarly, if most of the item collection needs to be returned anyway, the query improvement may not justify the cost.
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+ **Rule of thumb**: If the avg item collection size exceeds 64KB, consider adding a GSI to serve the new access pattern efficiently. Otherwise, avoid adding GSI and use query with filter. You should break this rule if customer is cost insensitive and requires the best query latency.
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+ ### Modeling Transient Data with TTL
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+ Time To Live (TTL) is a cost-effective method for automatically managing transient data that has a natural expiration time. It works well as a garbage collection process for cleaning up temporary data like session tokens, cache entries, temporary files, or time-sensitive notifications that become irrelevant after a specific period.
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+ TTL delay can be as high as 48 hours so do NOT rely on TTL for security-sensitive task. Instead use filter expressions to exclude expired items from application results. You can update or delete expired items before TTL processes them, and updating an expired item can extend its lifetime by modifying the TTL attribute. When expired items are deleted, they appear in DynamoDB Streams as system deletions rather than user deletions, which helps distinguish automatic cleanup from intentional data removal.
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  )
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  from botocore.config import Config
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  from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP
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+ from pathlib import Path
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  from pydantic import Field
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  app = FastMCP(
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  name='dynamodb-server',
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- instructions='The official MCP Server for interacting with AWS DynamoDB',
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- version='0.1.1',
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+ instructions="""The official MCP Server for interacting with AWS DynamoDB
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+
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+ This server provides comprehensive DynamoDB capabilities with over 30 operational tools for managing DynamoDB tables,
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+ items, indexes, backups, and more, plus expert data modeling guidance through DynamoDB data modeling expert prompt
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+ IMPORTANT: DynamoDB Attribute Value Format
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+ -----------------------------------------
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+ When working with DynamoDB, all attribute values must be specified with their data types.
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+ Each attribute value is represented as a dictionary with a single key-value pair where the key
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+ is the data type and the value is the data itself:
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+
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+ - S: String
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+ Example: {"S": "Hello"}
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+
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+ - N: Number (sent as a string)
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+ Example: {"N": "123.45"}
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+
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+ - B: Binary data (Base64-encoded)
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+ Example: {"B": "dGhpcyB0ZXh0IGlzIGJhc2U2NC1lbmNvZGVk"}
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+
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+ - BOOL: Boolean value
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+ Example: {"BOOL": true}
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+
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+ - NULL: Null value
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+ Example: {"NULL": true}
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+
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+ - L: List of AttributeValue objects
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+ Example: {"L": [{"S": "Cookies"}, {"S": "Coffee"}, {"N": "3.14159"}]}
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+
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+ - M: Map of attribute name/value pairs
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+ Example: {"M": {"Name": {"S": "Joe"}, "Age": {"N": "35"}}}
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+
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+ - SS: String Set (array of strings)
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+ Example: {"SS": ["Giraffe", "Hippo", "Zebra"]}
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+
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+ - NS: Number Set (array of strings representing numbers)
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+ Example: {"NS": ["42.2", "-19", "7.5", "3.14"]}
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+
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+ - BS: Binary Set (array of Base64-encoded binary data objects)
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+ Example: {"BS": ["U3Vubnk=", "UmFpbnk=", "U25vd3k="]}
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+
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+ Common usage examples:
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+ - Primary key: {"userId": {"S": "user123"}}
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+ - Composite key: {"userId": {"S": "user123"}, "timestamp": {"N": "1612345678"}}
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+ - Expression attribute values: {":minScore": {"N": "100"}, ":active": {"BOOL": true}}
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+ - Complete item: {"userId": {"S": "user123"}, "score": {"N": "100"}, "data": {"B": "binarydata=="}}
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+
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+ Use the `dynamodb_data_modeling` tool to access enterprise-level DynamoDB design expertise.
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+ This tool provides systematic methodology for creating production-ready multi-table design with
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+ advanced optimizations, cost analysis, and integration patterns.
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+ """,
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+ version='0.1.3',
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  )
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  )
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+ key: Dict[str, KeyAttributeValue] = Field(
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+ description='The primary key of an item. Must use DynamoDB attribute value format (see IMPORTANT note about DynamoDB Attribute Value Format).'
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+ )
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  filter_expression: str = Field(
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  description='Filter conditions expression that DynamoDB applies to filter out data',
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  )
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  expression_attribute_values: Dict[str, AttributeValue] = Field(
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- default=None, description='Values that can be substituted in an expression'
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+ default=None,
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+ description='Values that can be substituted in an expression. Must use DynamoDB attribute value format (see IMPORTANT note about DynamoDB Attribute Value Format).',
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  )
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  select: Select = Field(
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  )
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  exclusive_start_key: Dict[str, KeyAttributeValue] = Field(
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- default=None, description='Use the LastEvaluatedKey from the previous call.'
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+ default=None,
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+ description='Use the LastEvaluatedKey from the previous call. Must use DynamoDB attribute value format (see IMPORTANT note about DynamoDB Attribute Value Format).',
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  )
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  billing_mode: Literal['PROVISIONED', 'PAY_PER_REQUEST'] = Field(
@@ -112,6 +167,30 @@ billing_mode: Literal['PROVISIONED', 'PAY_PER_REQUEST'] = Field(
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  resource_arn: str = Field(description='The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the DynamoDB resource')
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+ @app.tool()
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+ @handle_exceptions
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+ async def dynamodb_data_modeling() -> str:
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+ """Retrieves the complete DynamoDB Data Modeling Expert prompt.
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+
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+ This tool returns a production-ready prompt to help user with data modeling on DynamoDB.
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+ The prompt guides through requirements gathering, access pattern analysis, and production-ready
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+ schema design. The prompt contains:
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+
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+ - Structured 2-phase workflow (requirements → final design)
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+ - Enterprise design patterns: hot partition analysis, write sharding, sparse GSIs, and more
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+ - Cost optimization strategies and RPS-based capacity planning
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+ - Multi-table design philosophy with advanced denormalization patterns
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+ - Integration guidance for OpenSearch, Lambda, and analytics
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+
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+ Usage: Simply call this tool to get the expert prompt.
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+
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+ Returns: Complete expert system prompt as text (no parameters required)
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+ """
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+ prompt_file = Path(__file__).parent / 'prompts' / 'dynamodb_architect.md'
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+ architect_prompt = prompt_file.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
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+ return architect_prompt
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+
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+
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  @app.tool()
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  @handle_exceptions
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  @mutation_check
@@ -324,7 +403,7 @@ async def get_item(
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  async def put_item(
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  table_name: str = table_name,
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  item: Dict[str, AttributeValue] = Field(
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- description='A map of attribute name/value pairs, one for each attribute.'
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+ description='A map of attribute name/value pairs, one for each attribute. Must use DynamoDB attribute value format (see IMPORTANT note about DynamoDB Attribute Value Format).'
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  ),
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  condition_expression: str = Field(
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  default=None,
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  [project]
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  name = "awslabs.dynamodb-mcp-server"
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- version = "1.0.1"
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+ version = "1.0.3"
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  description = "The official MCP Server for interacting with AWS DynamoDB"
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  readme = "README.md"
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  requires-python = ">=3.10"
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  describe_limits,
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  describe_table,
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  describe_time_to_live,
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+ dynamodb_data_modeling,
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  get_item,
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  list_backups,
@@ -887,3 +888,43 @@ async def test_list_imports(test_table):
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  # Should return a dict with ImportSummaryList and NextToken keys
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  assert isinstance(result, dict)
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+
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+
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+ @pytest.mark.asyncio
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+ async def test_dynamodb_data_modeling():
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+ """Test the dynamodb_data_modeling tool directly."""
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+ result = await dynamodb_data_modeling()
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+
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+ assert isinstance(result, str), 'Expected string response'
899
+ assert len(result) > 1000, 'Expected substantial content (>1000 characters)'
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+
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+ expected_sections = [
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+ 'DynamoDB Data Modeling Expert System Prompt',
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+ 'Multi-Table First',
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+ 'Denormalization',
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+ 'Sparse GSI',
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+ ]
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+
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+ for section in expected_sections:
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+ assert section in result, f"Expected section '{section}' not found in content"
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+
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+
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+ @pytest.mark.asyncio
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+ async def test_dynamodb_data_modeling_mcp_integration():
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+ """Test the dynamodb_data_modeling tool through MCP client."""
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+ from awslabs.dynamodb_mcp_server.server import app
916
+
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+ # Verify tool is registered in the MCP server
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+ tools = await app.list_tools()
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+ tool_names = [tool.name for tool in tools]
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+ assert 'dynamodb_data_modeling' in tool_names, (
921
+ 'dynamodb_data_modeling tool not found in MCP server'
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+ )
923
+
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+ # Get tool metadata
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+ modeling_tool = next((tool for tool in tools if tool.name == 'dynamodb_data_modeling'), None)
926
+ assert modeling_tool is not None, 'dynamodb_data_modeling tool not found'
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+
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+ assert modeling_tool.description is not None
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+ assert 'DynamoDB' in modeling_tool.description
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+ assert 'data modeling' in modeling_tool.description.lower()
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+ #
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+ # This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.10
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+ # by the following command:
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+ #
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+ #
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+ uv==0.7.13 \
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+ --hash=sha256:05f3c03c4ea55d294f3da725b6c2c2ff544754c18552da7594def4ec3889dcfb \
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+ --hash=sha256:1afdbfcabc3425b383141ba42d413841c0a48b9ee0f4da65459313275e3cea84 \
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+ --hash=sha256:33837aca7bdf02d47554d5d44f9e71756ee17c97073b07b4afead25309855bc7 \
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+ --hash=sha256:4efa555b217e15767f0691a51d435f7bb2b0bf473fdfd59f173aeda8a93b8d17 \
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+ --hash=sha256:4f828174e15a557d3bc0f809de76135c3b66bcbf524657f8ced9d22fc978b89c \
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+ --hash=sha256:527a12d0c2f4d15f72b275b6f4561ae92af76dd59b4624796fddd45867f13c33 \
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+ --hash=sha256:5786a29e286f2cc3cbda13a357fd9a4dd5bf1d7448a9d3d842b26b4f784a3a86 \
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+ --hash=sha256:59915aec9fd2b845708a76ddc6c0639cfc99b6e2811854ea2425ee7552aff0e9 \
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+ --hash=sha256:721b058064150fc1c6d88e277af093d1b4f8bb7a59546fe9969d9ff7dbe3f6fd \
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+ --hash=sha256:866cad0d04a7de1aaa3c5cbef203f9d3feef9655972dcccc3283d60122db743b \
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+ --hash=sha256:88fcf2bfbb53309531a850af50d2ea75874099b19d4159625d0b4f88c53494b9 \
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+ --hash=sha256:8c0c29a2089ff9011d6c3abccd272f3ee6d0e166dae9e5232099fd83d26104d9 \
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+ --hash=sha256:9c457a84cfbe2019ba301e14edd3e1c950472abd0b87fc77622ab3fc475ba012 \
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+ --hash=sha256:9d2952a1e74c7027347c74cee1cb2be09121a5290db38498b8b17ff585f73748 \
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+ --hash=sha256:a51006c7574e819308d92a3452b22d5bd45ef8593a4983b5856aa7cb8220885f \
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+ --hash=sha256:b1af81e57d098b21b28f42ec756f0e26dce2341d59ba4e4f11759bc3ca2c0a99 \
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+ --hash=sha256:f28e70baadfebe71dcc2d9505059b988d75e903fc62258b102eb87dc4b6994a3
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+ # via -r uv-requirements-0.7.13.in (contents of `uv==0.7.13`)
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- repos:
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- - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
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- rev: v0.9.6
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- hooks:
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- - id: ruff
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- args: [--fix]
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- - id: ruff-format
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-
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- - repo: https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen
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- rev: v3.13.0
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- hooks:
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- - id: commitizen
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- stages: [push]