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Update DynamoDB on-demand pricing to current rates

AWS reduced DynamoDB on-demand throughput prices by 50%, effective November 1, 2024
(announcement). This file still lists the pre-cut rates, overstating on-demand
throughput cost by 2x.

Before After
Write request units $1.25 /M $0.625 /M
Read request units (strongly consistent) $0.25 /M $0.125 /M

Verifiable against the AWS Price List API, which is authoritative and versioned:

https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonDynamoDB/current/region_index.json

Scope of this change

Only the two on-demand throughput rates are changed. Deliberately not touched, because the
2024 price cut did not apply to them:

  • Storage at $0.25/GB-month
  • Provisioned capacity at $0.00065/WCU-hr and $0.00013/RCU-hr
  • Transactional writes, which are $1.25/M -- the same figure as the stale standard-write rate
  • Eventually-consistent reads, which are $0.0625/M post-cut

That last pair is the easy trap in review: $1.25/M is both the stale standard-write rate and the
correct transactional-write rate, and $0.125/M is both the stale eventual-read rate and the
correct strongly-consistent read rate. Each line changed here was read in context to confirm it
refers to standard on-demand throughput.

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LeeroyHannigan requested a review from a team July 30, 2026 14:13
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Jul 30, 2026

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Thanks for the PR!

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kaleko merged commit 60eafb1 into awslabs:main Jul 30, 2026
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