--- title: How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies description: Yieldmo faced rising costs and cloud limitations with DynamoDB as its online advertising business scaled, driving their switch to ScyllaDB. The migration... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-yieldmo-cut-database-costs-and-cloud-dependencies-7bnfzg1te twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies | daily.dev og:description: Yieldmo faced rising costs and cloud limitations with DynamoDB as its online advertising business scaled, driving their switch to ScyllaDB. The migration... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-yieldmo-cut-database-costs-and-cloud-dependencies-7bnfzg1te og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7BnFZg1TE.png og:image:alt: How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Yieldmo faced rising costs and cloud limitations with DynamoDB as its online advertising business scaled, driving their switch to ScyllaDB. The migration reduced database costs by half while enabling multicloud flexibility and modest latency improvements. ScyllaDB's DynamoDB-compatible API facilitated a smooth transition with minimal code changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-yieldmo-cut-database-costs-and-cloud-dependencies-7bnfzg1te) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-yieldmo-cut-database-costs-and-cloud-dependencies-7bnfzg1te","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-yieldmo-cut-database-costs-and-cloud-dependencies-7bnfzg1te"},"datePublished":"2025-05-19T17:06:29.721Z","dateModified":"2025-05-19T17:06:44.173Z","description":"Yieldmo faced rising costs and cloud limitations with DynamoDB as its online advertising business scaled, driving their switch to ScyllaDB. The migration...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ca18f87481826dfd46721c525e635fb?_a=AQAEuj9","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ca18f87481826dfd46721c525e635fb?_a=AQAEuj9","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-yieldmo-cut-database-costs-and-cloud-dependencies-7bnfzg1te","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cloud,aws,backend,gcp","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies"}]} ```