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This disconnection between the initial business cases of DynamoDB and Amplify can even be seen within the AWS teams themselves. [4] We don't believe any of them are to blame. The solo Front End Engineer bootstrapping a quick Amplify app for a PoC feels like a way different use case than a team of highly trained data engineers working on their Single Table Design for their micro-service. Amplify rightfully tries to offer an easy way to deal with storing data. And so it follows a standard SQL design with DynamoDB. This though leads to bad performance (original selling point of DynamoDB) or other limitations hard to anticipate.
Overall it is pretty clear and fine that Amplify focuses on PoC projects rather than production ones (with features like Geo-tagging [5] but no way to migrate data). However, when starting to get traction, it is a shame we need to completely eject instead of being able to extend because of lack of (boring but necessary) fundamentals.
[1] https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli/issues/10164