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

AWS added native auto scaling support for DynamoDB in June 2017. See the announcement here.

You can configure this using code (Java SDK example), but if you have just a few tables, you can use the Management Console. Click in your table configuration and select the Capacity tab. The following image shows what are your options: