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Items have an internal order that's used during scans. You can't predict from the outside what the order will be because it's based on things like the hashes of PK values.
You want a semi-random item from the table? You can use the parallel scan functionality and specify up to a million segments and pick a random segment number to start your scan from. That would give you a million starting points (evenly distributed among the internal order of items).
DynamoDB paginates the results from Scan operations. With pagination, the Scan results are divided into "pages" of data that are 1 MB in size (or less). An application can process the first page of results, then the second page, and so on. A single Scan only returns a result set that fits within the 1 MB size limit.
Please read through the below links to get more information regarding the same.
Link- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Scan.html -- [1]
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/understanding-auto-paginated-scan-with-dynamodbmapper/ -- [2]
Not really answering my question
I don't know why you mention parallel scans all of a sudden, is not possible to pick a random segment number to start a scan from with a regular scan? Also, just to be clear, are you then saying that a regular scan with a random segment number to start the scan from will be what you would advice in my situation (and that it would be a good solution)?
To be clear, I didn't say to do a parallel scan. I said to use the parallel scan functionality which lets you split the scan into segments and you can pick a random one to read from. That was assuming you wanted a random item. I can't really give advice for your situation since you only asked about scan behaviors and didn't give your requirements. Are your requirements to pick a single random item from a table?