Question

A developer is building a new social media application backend using Amazon DynamoDB. The application is expected to launch with unknown traffic patterns that could spike unpredictably from a few requests per second to tens of thousands during viral events. The team wants to avoid throttling during spikes and does not want to spend time forecasting capacity or managing scaling policies. Which DynamoDB capacity configuration best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Use on-demand capacity mode so the table automatically accommodates workloads without capacity planning.

Answer

Use provisioned capacity mode with fixed read and write capacity units set to the highest anticipated peak.

Answer

Use provisioned capacity mode with auto scaling configured with a low target utilization of 20 percent.

Answer

Use provisioned capacity mode and manually adjust capacity units through a scheduled Lambda function.