Behind the Scenes at AWS – DynamoDB UpdateTable Speedup

We often talk about the Pace of Innovation at AWS, and share the results in this blog, in the AWS What’s New page, and in our weekly AWS on Air streams. Today I would like to talk about a slightly different kind of innovation, the kind that happens behind the scenes. Each AWS customer uses a different mix of services, and uses those services in unique ways. Every service is instrumented and monitored, and the team responsible for designing, building, running, scaling, and evolving the service pays continuous attention to all of the resulting metrics. The metrics provide insights into how the service is being used, how it performs under load, and in many cases highlights areas for optimization in…