DynamoDB Lowers Price Of On-Demand & Global Tables By Up To 67%
Creating an on-demand DynamoDB table has never been this cheap.
Amazon just announced a significant drop in prices of its on-demand throughput tables, as of today (November 14th).
Now, using on-demand tables will cost you a staggering 50% less than previously. [1]
As for Global tables, using on-demand mode will now cost 67% less, and using provisioned capacity will now cost 33% less than before.
This price drop will certainly act as a major change in how developers and businesses plan out their capacity provisioning and global table configurations.
On-Demand Mode
What Is DynamoDB’s Burst Capacity And How Does It Work?
How does it make your database more elastic to requests and offer hyper scalability anytime you need it.
DynamoDB’s on-demand mode offers users a pay-per-use pricing model that allows applications to scale seamlessly without planning out capacity in advance.
With on-demand mode, you do not need to worry about configuring your throughput. You do not need to dial it down on weekends, at night, or on less busy periods.
And you do not need to bring it back up to anticipate high traffic loads.
DynamoDB’s on-demand system handles all of that for you behind the scenes.
Previously, using provisioned mode was often more cost-efficient than on-demand, but with this 50% price slash, a lot of workload costs will change.
With this reduced pricing, on-demand mode will not only become viable but will quickly become a preferred choice for many workloads, even ones that may have been previously handled through provisioned capacity.
DynamoDB Global Tables
How To Create Global Tables In AWS DynamoDB For High Availability
Allow reads and writes to and from your table in multiple regions around the world to remain highly available to your…
Global Tables is a DynamoDB feature that provides multi-region data replication.
Previously, multi-region replicated writes had higher costs due to the additional resources required for replicating the data across regions.
Now, multi-region replicated write costs the same as single-region writes:
DynamoDB has reduced pricing for multi-Region replicated writes to match the pricing of single-Region writes, simplifying cost modeling for multi-Region applications
On-demand global tables replicated writes now cost 67% less and provisioned replicated writes now cost 33% less.
Conclusion
If you want to learn more about the differences between on-demand and provisioned tables in DynamoDB, I encourage you to read this article.
To learn more about Global Tables, here’s a beginner-friendly article I wrote to help you understand and create global tables.
To make use of DynamoDB’s lower table costs, you can log into your AWS account as of today and benefit from the price slashes immediately.
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