// Hacker Noon · 23 February 2026

Why Amazon Dynamo Still Shapes Modern Distributed Storage 17 Years Later

Dynamo is a distributed key-value storage system. It was designed to support Amazon’s high-traffic services such as the shopping cart and session management systems. Dynamo does not provide linearizability or global ordering guarantees.

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