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DBS-C01 · Question #182

A company is using Amazon DynamoDB global tables for an online gaming application. The game has players around the world. As the game has become more popular, the volume of requests to DynamoDB has in

The correct answer is A. Configure all replica tables to use DynamoDB auto scaling.. Using DynamoDB auto scaling is the recommended way to manage throughput capacity settings for replica tables that use the provisioned mode. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/globaltables_reqs_bestpr

Submitted by saadiq_pk· Mar 6, 2026Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Question

A company is using Amazon DynamoDB global tables for an online gaming application. The game has players around the world. As the game has become more popular, the volume of requests to DynamoDB has increased significantly. Recently, players have reported that the game state is inconsistent between players in different countries. A database specialist observes that the ReplicationLatency metric for some of the replica tables is too high. Which approach will alleviate the problem?

Options

  • AConfigure all replica tables to use DynamoDB auto scaling.
  • BConfigure a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster on each of the replicas.
  • CConfigure the primary table to use DynamoDB auto scaling and the replica tables to use manually
  • DConfigure the table-level write throughput limit service quota to a higher value.

How the community answered

(28 responses)
  • A
    46% (13)
  • B
    7% (2)
  • C
    29% (8)
  • D
    18% (5)

Explanation

Using DynamoDB auto scaling is the recommended way to manage throughput capacity settings for replica tables that use the provisioned mode. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/globaltables_reqs_bestpr

Topics

#DynamoDB#global tables#replication latency#auto scaling

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