How to disable auto scaling in DynamoDB table?

Question

I want to test making way too many request to a DynamoDB table to trigger the exception ProvisionedThroughputExceededException.

For this I have to reach the capacity limit, so I need to create a table that doesn't auto-scale.

DynamoDB has 2 capacity modes:

• on-demand: you don't specify any capacity, the table adapts to any traffic.
• provisioned: you specify your desired capacity, but can also auto-scale.

I'm using provisioned mode, but I don't know how to disable its auto scaling. On the table, capacity settings, I only have this:

There's this option of I authorize DynamoDB to scale capacity using the following role. But it's already set, I can't touch it.

Answer 1

You can disable autoscaling by clicking the checkboxes above each of the units (Read capacity and Write capacity).

Once you uncheck these checkboxes, the textboxes above allow you to put a specific value for each type of credit unit.