title: Is Amazon DynamoDB slower than Amazon RDS (php)?
body: <p>We use a bunch of AWS services hosted in the Singapore region. We have a few EC2 instances and an RDS instance. We were planning to migrate some of our data to Amazon DynamoDB, which will help in our application data design. </p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, DynamoDB is always slower than RDS. I have written a single row in a table created in the same region as our EC2 instances. Reading this row takes more than 1 second using the AmazonAWS SDK for php, and fetching a row from RDS using mysql takes more than 10 times lesser than that. </p>
  
  <p>Is there something we can do to optimize this? I have disabled SSL, but I don't think it made much of a difference.</p>