Amazon DynamoDB

2026/08/04 - 1 new 23 updated api methods

Changes   Vector indexes are a type of index in Amazon DynamoDB that enable similarity search on vector embedding stored in your table items. Vector indexes use approximate nearest neighbor search to find items whose vectors are most similar to a query vector that you provide.

2026/03/20 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Adding ReplicaArn to ReplicaDescription of a global table replica

2026/02/23 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This change supports the creation of multi-account global tables. It adds one new arguments to UpdateTable, GlobalTableSettingsReplicationMode.

2026/02/03 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   This change supports the creation of multi-account global tables. It adds two new arguments to CreateTable, GlobalTableSourceArn and GlobalTableSettingsReplicationMode. DescribeTable is also updated to include information about GlobalTableSettingsReplicationMode.

2025/08/14 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release 1/ Adds support for throttled keys mode for CloudWatch Contributor Insights, 2/ Adds throttling reasons to exceptions across dataplane APIs. 3/ Explicitly models ThrottlingException as a class in statically typed languages. Refer to the launch day blog post for more details.

2025/06/30 - 13 updated api methods

Changes   This change adds support for witnesses in global tables. It also adds a new table status, REPLICATION_NOT_AUTHORIZED. This status will indicate scenarios where global replicas table can't be utilized for data plane operations.

2025/01/07 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release makes Amazon DynamoDB point-in-time-recovery (PITR) to be configurable. You can set PITR recovery period for each table individually to between 1 and 35 days.

2024/12/03 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This change adds support for global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (in preview). The UpdateTable API now supports a new attribute MultiRegionConsistency to set consistency when creating global tables. The DescribeTable output now optionally includes the MultiRegionConsistency attribute.

2024/11/13 - 11 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes supports the new WarmThroughput feature for DynamoDB. You can now provide an optional WarmThroughput attribute for CreateTable or UpdateTable APIs to pre-warm your table or global secondary index. You can also use DescribeTable to see the latest WarmThroughput value.