Edit: This article is firmly out of date now. I have not gone back to try dynamoDB but I have heard they have changed how throughput is calculated and mitigated this issue. So take what is below with a grain of salt! Avid readers of the Ravelin syslog will remember a story from last year about our use of DynamoDB. It outlined a few gotchas that we experienced and gave advice on different uses case
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