I'd say "use it as your database if you know your access patterns make it suitable/well-suited for its use as your database". Even then it will probably not be your only database — if it's part of your MSA/SOA.
I would not build in DynamoDB if you suspect your access patterns will drastically change over the lifetime of the application (or if you intend to, e.g., plan to build a data warehouse or something crazy with it).
I’d imagine someone decides either based on the results of the tests not aligning with expectations (in which case —- cool), or because they’d rather not come out to a customer with a hard ‘no’ on a replacement, and essentially comp it as a courtesy. I wonder if in your case it’s simply been the latter.
Retail is hard. Perhaps less hard for Apple, but I wonder to what extent the retail store employees end up paying for stuff like this.
I'd be curious to know which media reports Intel actually finds inaccurate. I'm sure there are some out there, but I suspect most reports aren't inaccurate in ways that significantly deviate from the overall message that Intel's products have a relatively serious security flaw. Making a blanket statement that implies all the reporting is inaccurate is very disingenuous.
Dragging AMD's and ARM's names into this is completely inexplicable to me however.
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