Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA vs DynamoDB Standard
Recently Amazon DynamoDB Standard Infrequent Access (DynamoDB Standard-IA) table class, which AWS claims helps you to reduce your DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store data that is infrequently accessed. In this article let me give you the price dynamics of DynamoDB Standard-IA What DynamoDB costs break down Data storage Write traffic Read traffic Other Costs On-demand backup Continuous (PITR) backup Table restore Change data capture for Kinesis Data Streams Data export to Amazon S3 DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) DynamoDB Streams Let's just focus on data storage costs, which is a recurring cost, that grows as your storage grows. DynamoDB storage: 20 Terrabytes DynamoDB Standard Cost per 1 GB-month: $0.25 Cost per 20 Terrabytes: 20000 * $0.25 = $5000 per month DynamoDB Standard-IA Cost per 1 GB-month: $0.10 Cost per 20 Terrabytes: 20000 * $0.10 = $2000 per month *In US-East The cost slop is steep for DynamoDB Standard storage. If y