Capacity Units
Explore how DynamoDB charges and manages read and write capacity units, including the difference between on-demand and provisioned modes. Understand how item size affects capacity unit requirements, and learn when to use strong or eventual consistency for cost efficiency.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
As was discussed earlier in the “Salient Features of DynamoDB” lesson we are charged for the frequency of our reads and writes, instead of for the storage we use. We can choose one of the two following options for running our table:
- On-demand provisioning: In this provisioning, AWS will scale our provision capacity up or down based on our