A busy date key can throttle while table capacity remains available. Check the actual key distribution and throttling reason before adding capacity or shards.
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A DynamoDB table provisioned at 6,000 writes per second throttles at 2,000. The partition key is a date shared by many items. Fix it.
A busy date key can throttle while table capacity remains available. Check the actual key distribution and throttling reason before adding capacity or shards.
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