A company has an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table for storage.

Amazon DynamoDB supports two read consistency models: eventually consistent reads and strongly consistent reads. By default, DynamoDB uses eventual consistency, which means reads might not immediately reflect the most recent writes. This behavior explains why the application is not always receiving the latest data.

Because latency and performance are acceptable, the problem is not throughput or response time—it is data consistency. Therefore, the correct design change is to enable strongly consistent reads, which guarantee that reads always return the most up-to-date data after a successful write.

Option C is correct because strongly consistent reads ensure that the application sees the latest committed value for an item. This is critical for use cases such as inventory systems, user profiles, or transactional workflows where stale data can cause incorrect behavior.

Option A is invalid because DynamoDB does not support traditional read replicas. Option B does not affect consistency; GSIs are used to query data by alternative keys. Option D would worsen the problem because eventual consistency already causes stale reads.

Therefore, C is the appropriate recommendation to ensure correctness of returned data without changing the table schema or introducing additional complexity.