[monstrado]

Also, better insight into partition sizes / what's causing hot spotting. The DB abstracts a lot from the user, which isn't necessarily great, because it's still subject to the normal pitfalls of a NoSQL database.

[tejasmanohar]

Bigtable is a different beast, but it's new "Key Visualizer" is impressive. Has helped us quickly find anomalies https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/keyvis-overview

Wish Dynamo had something similar