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Autoscaling doesn't always help with hot shards (which I think gp was referring to) because you can have a single shard go over its share of the throughput[0] w
by piinbinary 8y ago
Autoscaling doesn't always help with hot shards (which I think gp was referring to) because you can have a single shard go over its share of the throughput[0] while still having a low total throughput.
[0] total throughput/num shards
- EwanToo 8y agoThis has largely been resolved, a single shard can now consume more of the throughput than your equation would give you. AWS refer to it as Adaptive Capacity https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-adaptive-capacity-accommodates-uneven-data-access-patterns-or-why-what-you-know-about-dynamodb-might-be-outdated/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-ad...