Edit: disregard. I read it as he'd done it and had contention problems.
I mean it's not if he's got lock contention from BUSY signals, now is it, as he implies. Much of his issues will stem from transactions blocking each other; maybe they are long-lived, maybe they are not. And those 3-500 queries --- are they writes or reads? Because reads is not a problem.
Roughly 80/20 read to write. On the instance's gp3 EBS volume (which is pretty slow), we've pushed ~700 write transactions per second without much problem.
For small oltp workloads the locking is not going to be a problem. But stuff that holds the write lock for some measurable fraction of a second even will gum things up real fast. Transactions that need it for many seconds? You'll quickly be dead in the water.
I mean it's not if he's got lock contention from BUSY signals, now is it, as he implies. Much of his issues will stem from transactions blocking each other; maybe they are long-lived, maybe they are not. And those 3-500 queries --- are they writes or reads? Because reads is not a problem.