Summary

In this chapter, we saw what the local and global secondary indexes are. We walked through projection and its usage with indexes. We also saw the best practices to implement and studied the use cases of secondary indexes.

In the next chapter, we will see how different types of scanning and query operations work in DynamoDB. Also, we will see how they are useful with databases.

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