When DynamoDB is 10x Cheaper Than S3

Surprisingly enjoying both low latency and low costs with DynamoDB

Guy Sela
Better Programming
Published in
6 min readJan 14, 2022

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As big-data architects using managed AWS solutions, we tend to map storage technologies in our heads into rules of thumb. S3 will be in the category of “cheap and slow” while DynamoDB, relatively speaking, will sit in the “fast and expensive” category. Well, in certain use cases as I…

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