Provision Table and Seed First Item
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Recipe · 4 steps
Provision Table and Seed First Item
with Amazon DynamoDB
Create a table, wait for ACTIVE, seed an item, and read it back.
- Create the table with the supplied schema and throughput.
- Poll DescribeTable until the table reports ACTIVE, looping back while it is still being created.
- Write the seed item into the freshly provisioned table.
- Read the seed item back by its primary key to confirm it was written.
What you'll need to have ready
- tableName: The name of the table to create and seed.
- keySchema: The primary key schema for the table.
- attributeDefinitions: The attribute definitions backing the key schema.
- provisionedThroughput: Read and write capacity units for PROVISIONED billing mode.
- item: The seed item as a map of attribute name to AttributeValue.
- key: The primary key of the seed item, used for the read-back.
For your developer
Arazzo workflow amazon-dynamodb:provision-table-and-seed, 4 operations: CreateTable → DescribeTable → PutItem → GetItem. Specs on APIs.io.