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Is there a maximum number of partitions limitation for DynamoDB?


When searching answer for this question, I ran into this page https://dynobase.dev/dynamodb-faq/dynamodb-maximum-number-of-partitions/ saying that

The maximum number of partitions per table is determined by the total provisioned throughput for the table, with a maximum of 3,000 partitions per table or a maximum of 10 GB per partition.

Is there really such a limitation?

I cannot find any mentioning about this limitation from DynamoDB's official doc. So I am not sure the accuracy of this page.


Solution

  • DynamoDB allows virtually unlimited scale. There's no "ouch, ran out of partitions" line. Just nonsense.

    There's some deep dive coverage on partition behaviors at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-1-scaling-dynamodb-how-partitions-hot-keys-and-split-for-heat-impact-performance/