How to auto scale Amazon DynamoDB throughput?

Question

Amazon DynamoDB doesn’t provide inbuild capabilities to auto tune throughput based on Dynamic Load. It provide API to increase or Decrease throughput. Customers are being c

Answer 1

I just discovered this project that will autoscale up and down your Dynamodb and looks better than Dynamic Dynamo, because it uses Lambda functions rather than EC2 instances:

https://github.com/channl/dynamodb-lambda-autoscale

• 5 minute setup process
• Serverless design
• Flexible code over configuration style
• Autoscale table and global secondary indexes
• Autoscale multiple tables
• Autoscale by fixed settings
• Autoscale by provisioned capacity utilisation
• Autoscale by throttled event metrics
• Optimised for large spikes in usage and hotkey issues by incorporating throttled event metrics
• Optimised performance using concurrent queries
• RateLimitedDecrement as imposed by AWS
• Statistics via 'measured'
• AWS credential configuration via 'dotenv'
• Optimised lambda package via 'webpack'
• ES7 code
• 100% Flow static type checking coverage