How is Amazon DynamoDB throughput calculated and limited?

Question

Is it averaged per second? Per minute? Per hour?

For example.. if I pay for 10 \"read units\" which allows for 10 highly consistent reads per second, will I be throttl

Answer 1

The DynamoDB provides 'Burst Capacity' which allows for spikes in amount of data read from table. You can read more about it under: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GuidelinesForTables.html#GuidelinesForTables.Bursting

Basically it's what @abjennings noticed - It uses 5min window to average number of reads from a table.