Oh, absolutely.  The problem is that your key schema also ties you to what kind of queries you can do efficiently.  My primary keys actually are very well-distributed across the hash space, but in my initial implementation, one of the global secondary indexes had a key that caused throttling and absolutely destroyed performance.  Dropping that index meant losing the ability to do an entire class of queries.  In this case, we were (sorta) able to live with that, but I can imagine many cases where that&#x27;s a problem.<p>That&#x27;s actually another instance of the lack of transparency and trial-and-error: &quot;oh hey, writes are getting throttled... no idea why... let&#x27;s drop this index and see if it helps&quot;.