You are experiencing performance issues writing to a DynamoDB table. Your system tracks high scores for video games on a marketplace. Your most popular game experiences all of the performance issues. What is the most likely problem?
A) DynamoDB's vector clock is out of sync, because of the rapid growth in request for the most popular game.
B) You selected the Game ID or equivalent identifier as the primary partition key for the table.
C) Users of the most popular video game each perform more read and write requests than average.
D) You did not provision enough read or write throughput to the table.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Using the Game ID as the primary partition key can lead to a "hot partition" problem, where all requests are directed to a single partition, causing performance issues.

You Are Experiencing Performance Issues Writing to a DynamoDB Table