How is Amazon DynamoDB throughput calculated and limited?

Question

Is it averaged per second? Per minute? Per hour?

For example.. if I pay for 10 \"read units\" which allows for 10 highly consistent reads per second, will I be throttl

Answer 1

We set our 'write-limit' to 10 units/sec for one of the tables. Cloudwatch graph (see image) shows we exceeded this by one unit (11 writes/sec). I'm assuming there's a small wiggle room (<= 10%). Again , i'm just assuming ...