# Amazon SimpleDB Concepts
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**Topics**
+ [Data Model](DataModel.md)
+ [Operations](Operations.md)
+ [API Summary](APISummary.md)
+ [Consistency](ConsistencySummary.md)
+ [Limits](SDBLimits.md)
+ [Data Set Partitioning](DataSetPartitioningConcepts.md)
+ [AWS Identity and Access Management](IAM.md)

This section describes the key concepts that you should understand before using Amazon SimpleDB.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon SimpleDB. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonSimpleDB` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).