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> With some services I'd agree with you, but DynamoDB and Lambda are easily two of their 'simplest' to configure and understand services, and two of the ones that scale the easiest. IAM roles can be decently complicated, but that's really up to the user. If it's just 'let the Lambda talk to the table' it's simple enough.

We agree, but also, I feel like you're missing my point: "let the Lambda talk to the table" is what quickstarts produce. To make a lambda talk to a table at scale in production, you'll want to setup your alerting and monitoring to notify you when you're getting close to your service limits.

If you're not hitting service limits/quotas, you're not running even close to running at scale.



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