DynamoDB Target Connection
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Amazon DynamoDB is a database offered by Amazon Web Services that is easy to manage and doesn’t need structured data. It has many useful features, such as Replication, Autoscaling, Encryption At Rest, and On-Demand Backup.
This topic describes how to authenticate to Amazon DynamoDB and configure any necessary connection properties in the Amazon DynamoDB connection connector.
Prerequisite
For the Amazon DynamoDB Data Sources and Emitters to run successfully in Gathr applications, the following permissions/policy actions should be assigned in AWS:
dynamodb:ListTables
dynamodb:DescribeTable
dynamodb:Scan
dynamodb:PartiQLSelect
dynamodb:PartiQLInsert
dynamodb:PartiQLUpdate
dynamodb:PartiQLDelete
dynamodb:CreateTable
Connection Configuration
Each connection property available in the Amazon DynamoDB connector is explained below.
Connection Name
The name of the connection to be created should be provided. This is the name that will display on the list of available connections.
Auth Scheme
The type of authentication to use when connecting to Amazon DynamoDB.
Possible Values
AWS Keys
If AWS Keys is selected, additional configuration parameter will get listed.
AWS Access Key
The access key associated with the AWS account.
AWS Secret Key
The secret key associated with the AWS account.
EC2 Roles
If EC2 Roles is selected, additional configuration parameters will get listed.
AWS Role ARN
Specify the Role ARN for the role you’d like to authenticate with. This will retrieve credentials for the specified role.
AWS IAM Roles
If AWS IAM Roles is selected, additional configuration parameters will get listed.
AWS Access Key
The access key associated with the AWS account.
AWS Secret Key
The secret key associated with the AWS account.
AWS Role ARN
Specify the Role ARN for the role you’d like to authenticate with. This will retrieve credentials for the specified role.
AWS Region
Set this to the region where your Amazon DynamoDB data is hosted.
After entering all the details, click on the TEST button.
If the connection service identification and authentication details are provided correctly, a success message stating “connection available” is generated.
Click on the CREATE button to save the changes.
If the details are incorrect or the server is down, you will get a message “Connection unavailable”.
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