title: How to create a database in DynamoDB
body: <p>I'm very new to DynamoDB. While reading the documentation, I've seen the <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DataModel.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">following sentence</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>In Amazon DynamoDB, a database is a collection of tables. A table is a collection of items and each item is a collection of attributes.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Nevertheless, <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/APISummary.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">all I can found</a> are methods to play with tables, items and attributes, and nothing is said about how to create a database.</p>
  
  <p>So my questions is: is it possible to create databases within my user account, or are all the tables created within a "common shared default" database (i.e. my user account is the unique "database")?</p>
  
  <p>It would be very useful for me to create, somehow, subsets of tables around the concept of a "user/tenant". Of course, this is something that could be managed by my application logic, however, my users would require a more clear/secure data isolation.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, as said, very new to DynamoDB and most probably I'm missing a lot of things.</p>