Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is one of the more common AWS services coupled with AWS Lambda to produce web application backend services.
To simulate the inability of our example application to access DynamoDB, let’s delete the DynamoDB table the Lambda functions read from and write to.
Make sure you tick the checkbox for Create a backup before deleting this table.
Upon clicking the Delete table button, you will be presented with the following dialog for deletion confirmation: