DynamoDB On-Demand

  • Automatically scale read/write with your workload
  • No capacity planning needed
    • Unlimited WCU, RCU, no throttle, more expensivea
  • Charged based on
    • RRU (Read Request Units) - throughput for reads
    • WRU (Write Request Units) - throughput for writes
  • 2.5x more expesnive than DynamoDB Provisioned
  • usecase: unpredicted workload