Pre-warming Amazon DynamoDB tables with warm throughput
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This article introduces a new Amazon DynamoDB feature called "warm throughput" that allows you to prepare DynamoDB tables for high traffic from the moment they're created or before anticipated traffic spikes.
Specifically, the article covers:
- An overview of DynamoDB capacity modes and throughput units
- What warm throughput is and how it works
- Common use cases for pre-warming tables
- Step-by-step guide to estimate peak throughput and determine if pre-warming is needed
- How to set warm throughput values using the AWS Management Console, CLI, and CloudFormation
- Best practices for using warm throughput
- Monitoring warm throughput values
- Compatibility with global secondary indexes, global tables, and infrastructure as code
- Pricing for warm throughput
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