Amazon DynamoDB

Hot Partition Throttling Under Adequate Global Capacity

Resource Contention

DynamoDB throttles requests when a single partition exceeds 3,000 RCU/s or 1,000 WCU/s, even when table-level capacity is sufficient. This indicates access pattern skew requiring key distribution redesign.

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