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> Did I ever claim on 48TB on AWS

When presenting an alternative to DynamoDB, AWS is an implied part of presenting that alternative. While the original article does suggest an alternative outside of AWS, it properly qualifies it as a competitor offering. Regardless, I don't care what was and wasn't claimed. It's not important.

> You are seriously claiming DynamoDB will be holding full 20TB in RAM

No. I'm claiming that DynamoDB will have predictable and consistent latency characteristics at 20TB. The related claim is that an RDBMS will not have consistent latency characteristics if the working dataset does not fit in memory.



"When presenting an alternative to DynamoDB, AWS is an implied part of presenting that alternative". If that is the way you guys operate well ... We run things in AWS, on prem and in GCP. Our AWS spend is over 3 mil. per month things that require hard latency guarantees are def. not running in AWS. Nothing is AWS has "predictable and consistent latency characteristics" simply due to the nature of how they operate.




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