A table is a collection of items, and an item is a collection of namedattributes. Items are uniquely identified by apartition key attribute and an optionalsort key attribute. The partition key determines where (i.e. on what computer) an item is stored. The sort key is used to get ordered ranges of items from a specific partition. That's is, that's the whole data model. Sure, there's indexes and transactions and other features, but at its core, this is it. Put another way:
A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but as a mandate. "Put copilots everywhere," leadership said. "Start with maintenance, then procurement, then the call center, then engineering change orders."
The main advantage of going the Multi-Cloud way is that organizations can "put their eggs in different baskets" and be more versatile in their approach to how they do things. For example, they can mix it up and opt for a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution when it comes to the database, while going the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) route for their application endeavors.