awslabs/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client
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The AmazonDynamoDBLockClient is a general purpose distributed locking library built on top of DynamoDB. It supports both coarse-grained and fine-grained locking.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2022-06-16 · latest 2025-08-01
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…is already using SQS, DynamoDB has this locking library which is lighter weight for this use case https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client > The AmazonDynamoDBLockClient is a general purpose distributed locking library built…
comment by iglio · 2025-08-01 · in Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler -
I recall using https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client previously, this is basically a managed version. Interesting.
comment by wizwit999 · 2022-06-16 · in Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems