Durability is certainly not being compromised. I think they are just referring to increasing lease times. Timeouts are always a tradeoff (false alarm frequency

Durability is certainly not being compromised. I think they are just referring to increasing lease times. Timeouts are always a tradeoff (false alarm frequency vs. recovery time), and this event has prompted them to re-evaluate the tradeoff. If you suspect the design of DynamoDB is sloppy, I encourage you to read this: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-services-uses-formal-methods/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-s...