[20 Days of DynamoDB] Day 2 - GetItem add-on benefits

Posted: 9/Jan/2024

Did you know that the DynamoDB GetItem operation also gives you the ability to:

• Switch to strongly consistent read (eventually consistent being the default)


• Use a projection expression to return only some of the attributes


• Return the consumed Read Capacity Units (RCU)

Here is an example (DynamoDB Go SDK):

    resp, err := client.GetItem(context.Background(), &dynamodb.GetItemInput{
        TableName: aws.String(tableName),
        Key: map[ …

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