FaunaDB vs DynamoDB: Querying capabilities, Pricing, and more

Haven't used FaunaDB yet, but did use AWS Dynamo and AWS DocumentDB. The price schedule here is incorrect. At AWS there are still some costs. The costs are not transparent. Despite the free tier in the first year, the cost was still up, and the free tier was flawed and often ineligible. Hardly anyone reacts to emails. I only got a response to an email after 2 months. The service is practically non-existent for small developers here in the EU. I work in a large corporation where we use almost everything from AWS or Azure. As a group, the support is very good. Therefore, as long as you do not have a particularly high load on your application, it is better to use "smaller" providers, even with slightly higher prices. At Meetups, the majority of developers have confirmed my experience with AWS.

Sorry you had a bad experience. However DocumentDB is not DynamoDB and the two services have very different pricing models. DocumentDB is a MongoDB compatible service where you have to pay for a constantly running EC2 instance to run it on. DocumentDB also does not have a free tier, so I could see how your experience of it being expensive would be true given that you are billed for every second an instance is running and without knowing it wasn't covered under a free tier.

Unfortunately, none of that is discussed in this video because it is not a video on DocumentDB and the price schedule here is correct for DynamoDB, which is a different service.