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Amazon DynamoDB capacity modes

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Amazon DynamoDB capacity modes

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- [Instructor] When you start using DynamoDB, you pay for the amount of data is stored on your table, the reads made against your items, as well as the write operations. There are optional DynamoDB features that you can use that incur additional charges, but if you're just using DynamoDB for what it is with its basic functionality, you pretty much only pay for the storage and capacity. In this lecture, we will look at the two capacity modes available in DynamoDB. The first one is the provisioned capacity mode. When you use this capacity mode, you have to set a fixed amount of read throughput and write throughput that will be allocated to your table. For provision mode tables, capacity throughput is specified in terms of capacity units. So for reads, we have the read capacity unit and write capacity unit for writes. We will just refer to them as RCU and WCU. The values that you can set for RCU and WCU can be totally…

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