# Amazon DynamoDB

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[Amazon DynamoDB (opens in a new tab)](https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/dynamodb/) is a fully managed NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that touts seamless scalability, high availability, and low latency for handling large amounts of structured and semi-structured data.

## Prerequisites [Permalink for this section](/content/docs/integrations/databases/dynamodb#prerequisites/index.html)

In order to integrate with DynamoDB, you'll need to collect the following information:

- `Region name`: The AWS region where your DynamoDB table is located (e.g. us-west-2). This is visible when logging into the [AWS Management Console (opens in a new tab)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/).
- `Access Key` & `Access Key ID`: The credentials that provide access to your AWS account. These can be found or created in a IAM user's `Security credentials` tab.

## Integrating with Amazon DynamoDB [Permalink for this section](/content/docs/integrations/databases/dynamodb#integrating-with-amazon-dynamodb/index.html)

To integrate an existing system with DynamoDB:

1. Navigate to **Data map** → **View Systems** and choose the system that you want to connect to.
2. Click on the **Integrations** tab.
3. Pick the vendor or system type that you want to integrate with from the **Connection type** drop-down menu.
4. Complete the required fields for the integration and click **Save**.

You may confirm your connection is working using the **Test connection** button, if desired.

To learn more, please see our guide for [Managing Integrations](/content/docs/integrations/guides/manage-integrations/index.html).

## Configuring a dataset [Permalink for this section](/content/docs/integrations/databases/dynamodb#configuring-a-dataset/index.html)

A dataset is required to configure an integration to this database. A dataset is a configuration file that tell Fides how to query and update data in the database. To learn more about how to create and manage datasets, please see our [Managing datasets](/content/docs/integrations/guides/datasets/index.html) guide.

An example DynamoDB dataset can be viewed in [Github (opens in a new tab)](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/blob/main/data/dataset/dynamodb_example_test_dataset.yml).