r/aws_dynamodb_table: Do not retry on LimitExceededException

[kamilturek]

Rollback Plan

If a change needs to be reverted, we will publish an updated version of the library.

Changes to Security Controls

N/A

Description

This PR updates the DynamoDB retries to not retry on LimitExceededException indicating the MaxReadRequestUnits and TableMaxWriteCapacityUnits limits.

Closes #44217.

References

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Output from Acceptance Testing

$ make testacc TESTS=TestAccDynamoDBTable_basic PKG=dynamodb     
make: Verifying source code with gofmt...
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
make: Running acceptance tests on branch: 🌿 b-aws_dynamodb_table-limit-exceeded-exception-infinite-retries 🌿...
TF_ACC=1 go1.24.6 test ./internal/service/dynamodb/... -v -count 1 -parallel 20 -run='TestAccDynamoDBTable_basic'  -timeout 360m -vet=off
2025/10/07 23:46:06 Creating Terraform AWS Provider (SDKv2-style)...
2025/10/07 23:46:06 Initializing Terraform AWS Provider (SDKv2-style)...
=== RUN   TestAccDynamoDBTable_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccDynamoDBTable_basic
=== CONT  TestAccDynamoDBTable_basic
--- PASS: TestAccDynamoDBTable_basic (34.41s)
PASS
ok      github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/internal/service/dynamodb   39.497s

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[ewbankkit]

LGTM 🚀.

[ewbankkit]

@kamilturek Thanks for the contribution 🎉 👏.

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