[gelatocar]

I'd be interested to hear how others are handling read/write capacity configuration for dynamo. It seems like it would be very easy to hit the account limit of 10,000 units once you are querying any significant amount of data. I've also run into issues with auto scaling where you have to endure up to 15 minutes of downtime before the scaling kicks in [0]. Even on a table with ~2000 items I've found it becomes quite slow and costly to fetch data. Also the 25 item limit on batch writes makes it pretty frustrating to edit/delete lots of data.

- [0] https://hackernoon.com/the-problems-with-dynamodb-auto-scali...

[ryanworl]

You can request that limit be increased through the limit increase form.

Also, if you need to scan a ton of items to assemble your desired result, you should re-think using DynamoDB as a whole.