> You don’t have to randomize the first part of your object keys to ensure they get spread around and avoid hotspots.
As of when? According to internal support, this is still required as of 1.5 years ago.
As of when? According to internal support, this is still required as of 1.5 years ago.
The auto partitioning is different. It can isolate hot prefixes on its own and can intelligently pick the partition points. Problem is the process is slow and you can be throttled for more than a day before it kicks in.
They can do this with manual partitioning indeed. I've done it before, but it's not ideal because the auto partitioner will scale beyond almost anything AWS will give you with manual partitioning unless you have 24/7 workloads.
> you can be throttled for more than a day before it kicks in
I expect that this would depends on your use case. If you are dropping content you need to scale out to tons of readers, that is absolutely the case. If you are dropping tons of content with well distributed reads, then the auto partitioner is The Way.