Optimizing costs on DynamoDB tables
This section covers best practices on how to optimize costs for your existing DynamoDB tables. You should look at the following strategies to see which cost optimization strategy best suits your needs and approach them iteratively. Each strategy will provide an overview of what might be impacting your costs, what signs to look for, and prescriptive guidance on how to reduce them.
Topics
- Evaluate your costs at the table level
- Evaluate your DynamoDB table's capacity mode
- Evaluate your DynamoDB table's auto scaling settings
- Evaluate your DynamoDB table class selection
- Identify your unused resources in DynamoDB
- Evaluate your DynamoDB table usage patterns
- Evaluate your DynamoDB streams usage
- Evaluate your provisioned capacity for right-sized provisioning in your DynamoDB table
