The biggest problem I'm aware of with DynamoDB is the hot key / partition issue[1]. Throughout is distributed evenly across nodes, you can't control how many nodes you have, so you always have a node that's hot either temporarily or permanently and so you end up having to over provision all your nodes to be able to handle that hot case, which ends up costing far more than alternatives. What's your take on this? This is the chief reason I avoid DynamoDB, which in theory would be a good fit for some of my problems.

[1] https://syslog.ravelin.com/you-probably-shouldnt-use-dynamod...