Doesn't seems to be attractive price-wise. Quick math (us-east-1 North Virginia, reads, strong consistency): 1. Provisioned: $0.00013 per RCU 1 RCU provides

Doesn't seems to be attractive price-wise. Quick math (us-east-1 North Virginia, reads, strong consistency): 1. Provisioned: $0.00013 per RCU 1 RCU provides 3,600 reads per hour 0.00013 * 1000000 / 3600 ~= $0.036 per mln reads https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/provisioned/ https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/provisioned/ 2. On-demand: $0.25 per million read request units https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/ https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/ So AWS on-demand is more expensive if your read utilisation is higher than 14.4%. Not that exciting for any serious use-case. Plus you can reserve DynamoDB capacity for a year and save ~56%: (30 + 0.0025 * 24 * 365) / (100* 0.00013 * 365 * 24 )