Design Amazon DynamoDB System Design Interview

1. Problem Statement

2. Architecture Discussion Map

Use this as one discussion aid, not a single correct answer. Your design should follow from the requirements, scale, and trade-offs you establish.

graph LR
    A["Design Amazon DynamoDB"]
    A --> F1["Partitioning Consistent Hashing"]
    A --> F2["High Availability Leaderless Replication / Multi-master"]
    A --> F3["Consistency Quorum reads/writes, W+R > N"]
    A --> F4["Conflict Resolution Vector Clocks, Last-Write-Wins"]
    A --> F5["Failure Detection Gossip Protocol"]

3. Key Focus Areas

• 1
  Partitioning (Consistent Hashing)
• 2
  High Availability (Leaderless Replication / Multi-master)
• 3
  Consistency (Quorum reads/writes, W+R > N)
• 4
  Conflict Resolution (Vector Clocks, Last-Write-Wins)
• 5
  Failure Detection (Gossip Protocol)