Microservices with DynamoDB: should you use a single table or use one table per microservice?

DynamoDB is a great database for microservices. You can use it for small services with few data or use it with large data heavy applications. One recommendation of AWS is to maintain as few tables as possible in a DynamoDB application. Yet if you create a microservice architecture, should you use a single table design or use one DynamoDB table per microservice?

This blog post explains the idea of a single table design and and why it is not always applicable to a microservice environment. …