Using Dynamo is the worst thing we've done for productivity and costs in our product. It introduces onboarding overhead, unnecessary implementation time overhea

Using Dynamo is the worst thing we've done for productivity and costs in our product. It introduces onboarding overhead, unnecessary implementation time overhead, costs a lot, and is always a bottleneck in every operation. Using DAX requires paying for VPC which already costs more than a server that could power many small to mid-sized products. Resizing table throughputs requires lots of manual work to keep it cost effective, because the default settings are designed to nickel and dime you to death. If we just used a simple SQL or MongoDB server attached as a container we'd save literally months of development time and thousands of dollars per month.