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DBS-C01 · Question #263

An online gaming company is using an Amazon DynamoDB table in on-demand mode to store game scores. After an intensive advertisement campaign in South America, the average number of concurrent users…

The correct answer is B. Switch the table to provisioned mode and enable auto scaling. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/dynamodb-table-throttled/

Submitted by haru.x· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations

Question

An online gaming company is using an Amazon DynamoDB table in on-demand mode to store game scores. After an intensive advertisement campaign in South America, the average number of concurrent users rapidly increases from 100,000 to 500,000 in less than 10 minutes every day around 5 PM. The on-call software reliability engineer has observed that the application logs contain a high number of DynamoDB throttling exceptions caused by game score insertions around 5 PM. Customer service has also reported that several users are complaining about their scores not being registered. How should the database administrator remediate this issue at the lowest cost?

Options

  • AEnable auto scaling and set the target usage rate to 90%.
  • BSwitch the table to provisioned mode and enable auto scaling.
  • CSwitch the table to provisioned mode and set the throughput to the peak value.
  • DCreate a DynamoDB Accelerator cluster and use it to access the DynamoDB table.

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    78% (25)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    13% (4)

Explanation

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/dynamodb-table-throttled/

Topics

#DynamoDB#on-demand capacity#provisioned capacity#auto scaling

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