Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption
A pretty good post mortem, but one worrisome final comment:<p><i>"For us, availability is the most important feature of DynamoDB"</i><p>I would think that durability should be the most important feature of DynamoDB; better to have intermittent outage, or reduced capacity, but not have data loss - but perhaps there is something about DynamoDB which suggests availability is rated more highly than durability?