What should be done when the provisioned throughput is exceeded?

Yes. Every time your application sends a request that exceeds your capacity you get ProvisionedThroughputExceededException message from Dynamo. However your SDK handles this for you and retries. The default Dynamo retry time starts at 50ms, the default number of retries is 10, and backoff is exponential by default. This means you get retries at: 50ms … Read more