Comment by mlhpdx

Not my experience at all. The DX is different, but not bad in my, and it has been extremely reliable and inexpensive for my use cases and workloads. I built mainstream stuff and a global multi-region replicated DDB table with backups is essentially free.

That said, I don’t do query time aggregation anymore, which seems to be a common challenge folks hit. Other approaches that implement streaming/incremental aggregation and make it look roughly like query time probably are simpler.