Worth mentioning that Dynamo (the classic 2007 paper) and DynamoDB (the modern AWS product) have fairly little in common architecturally.

For DynamoDB, check out https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/elhemal... https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/idziore... and my analysis of the differences here https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/08/15/dynamo-dynamodb-dsql.h...