There is a burst capacity available to tables that go over their allocated capacity. Unused read and write capacity can be retained for up to five minutes (such as 300 seconds, for calculation purposes). Relying on this capacity is not good practice, and it will undoubtedly cause issues at some stage in the future.
Burst capacity
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