Why DynamoDB Costs Spiral Out of Control (and How to Fix Them)

Tim Koopmans exposes why DynamoDB is easy to adopt but brutally hard to cost-control. Hidden pitfalls—from 5× write costs and per-second provisioned rates to overprovisioning and throttling—can send budgets soaring. His ScyllaDB cost calculator reveals the real math behind AWS’s “serverless” pricing so teams can model workloads before it’s too late.