title: Is it possible to check what the provisioned throughput is for DynamoDB?
body: <p>Is it possible for my (java) app to check DynamoDB's provisioned throughput for read/writes? For stability reasons it would be useful if I could get these numbers programmatically</p>
  
  <p>I am aware that if I get a <code>ProvisionedThroughputExceededException</code> then I have exceeded my limit, but is there a way to find out what my read/write limits are <em>before</em> that happens?</p>
  
  <p>I have also found some docs referring to <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeLimits.html" rel="nofollow">describing limits</a> but this doesn't seem to correspond to anything I can use in code</p>
  
  <p>This is the first time I've used dynamodb so if this is fundamentally bad practice to do please say!</p>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>