Amazon DynamoDB · Rate Limits

Amazon Dynamodb Rate Limits

Amazon Dynamodb Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Amazon DynamoDB on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, measuring request_units_per_second, capacity_units_per_second, update_table_decreases, tables, and concurrent_readers.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, serviceUnavailable, and note.

Tagged areas include Database, Document Store, Key-Value Store, NoSQL, and Serverless.

8 Limits Throttle: 400 Quota: 400
DatabaseDocument StoreKey-Value StoreNoSQLServerless

Limits

Per-table throughput, on-demand mode per-table
request_units_per_second · second
40000
Per-table throughput, provisioned mode per-table
capacity_units_per_second · second
40000
Per-account provisioned throughput per-account-per-region
capacity_units_per_second · second
80000
Provisioned capacity decreases per table per day per-table
update_table_decreases · day
27
Tables per account per Region per-account-per-region
tables
2500
Simultaneous readers per DynamoDB Streams shard per-shard
concurrent_readers
2
Active reserved capacity per account per-account
provisioned_capacity_units
1000000
Backfilled data for new global-table replicas per-account-per-region
terabytes · day
10

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