I was working for a pretty big early AWS customer--one that had realized that for the low low price of all your money you could make DynamoDB scale to some truly massive numbers--and one time when we were having trouble around noon Eastern, a colleague called up our TAM. As he told it, the TAM sounded half-asleep, so my colleague asked if everything was alright.

"I'm in Hawaii on my honeymoon and my backup missed your call, so it escalated."

I probably wouldn't have answered the phone. Granted, that's why I don't do that job. But I have always had a real appreciation for the good TAMs ever since.

Wonder if that marriage lasted though? ;)

Weird, I just begrudgingly went from Postgres to Dynamo because it was so much cheaper. We're not huge scale though, so I'm wondering where the costs start to diverge the other way.

With Dynamo it seems to depend a lot exactly what you're doing. If you're careful about your queries, it's pretty cheap.

This was, 2012 and we were hitting read and write limits regionally.

It was not a wise plan. It did, however, run. Technically.