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CapacitySpecification

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CapacitySpecification - Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Amazon Keyspaces has two read/write capacity modes for processing reads and writes on your tables:

  • On-demand (default)

  • Provisioned

The read/write capacity mode that you choose controls how you are charged for read and write throughput and how table throughput capacity is managed.

For more information, see Read/write capacity modes in the Amazon Keyspaces Developer Guide.

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throughputMode

The read/write throughput capacity mode for a table. The options are:

  • throughputMode:PAY_PER_REQUEST and

  • throughputMode:PROVISIONED - Provisioned capacity mode requires readCapacityUnits and writeCapacityUnits as input.

The default is throughput_mode:PAY_PER_REQUEST.

For more information, see Read/write capacity modes in the Amazon Keyspaces Developer Guide.

Type: String

Valid Values: PAY_PER_REQUEST | PROVISIONED

Required: Yes

readCapacityUnits

The throughput capacity specified for read operations defined in read capacity units (RCUs).

Type: Long

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No

writeCapacityUnits

The throughput capacity specified for write operations defined in write capacity units (WCUs).

Type: Long

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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