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Re:S3 Is Showing Its Age by Skinney on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:38AM (#40450851)
Keep in mind that a write capacity unit in DDB is capped to 1kb. Writing a 10kb file to DDB? That's 10 write capacity units.
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Re:S3 Is Showing Its Age by kennu on Thursday May 23, 2024 @06:45AM (#40453032)
That's a good point, only very small data is cheaper in DynamoDB than S3. Also adding global secondary indexes tends to add cost, since writes are charged for each of them.
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