This 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 h

This 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outdated/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-ad...