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by shepherdjerred 1418 days ago
> In 2021, during the 66-hour Amazon Prime Day shopping event, Amazon systems - including Alexa, the Amazon.com sites, and Amazon fulfill- ment centers, made trillions of API calls to DynamoDB, peak- ing at 89.2 million requests per second, while experiencing high availability with single-digit millisecond performance.

Yeah, good luck beating DDB on that one.

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Even better luck building an Amazon scale business after spending 100k on dynamodb.