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Yes, I know.

I was just interested if a ConsistentRead would change the latency.

It has to to acquire and release locks, so yes.

Are you sure about that? DynamoDB is paxos based, so that seems unnecessary.

Given data is always replicated to at least 2 of 3 storage nodes before ACK’ing, you can always just read from 2 different replicas and be sure you have the latest data.

Oh, I thought you were referring to the multi-key consistent transactions, not single key strong consistency mode. I think you are correct.

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