I'd love to hear how Dynamo would end up being $2-3 million a year They sure do a great job of convincing people that it's cheap so I'm curious where the cost seems to blow up?
If you are doing north of a million ops on DynamoDB you can quickly run into the $2-3 million a year range.
In this 2018 benchmark, we were able to calculate that a sustained, provisioned of only 160k write ops / 80k read ops for DynamoDB would cost >$500k per year:
That was a few years ago. These days, according to our most current pricing you could do DynamoDB provisioned, 1 year reserved for $38,658/month, which is "only" $463,896 annually (pop up the "Details" button and choose "vs. DynamoDB"):
The same workload on Scylla Cloud would run $29,768 reserved/month, or $357,216 per annum — 77% cheaper.
Of course, all of this is just pure list price. Depending on volume you might be able to negotiate better pricing. However, you'd need a really steep discount for DynamoDB just to get back to Scylla Cloud's list price.
Let me know if you spot any math errors or omissions on my part.
