Copying one table to another in DynamoDB

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ensnare picture ensnare · Sep 3, 2012 · Viewed 42.7k times · Source

What's the best way to identically copy one table over to a new one in DynamoDB?

(I'm not worried about atomicity).

Answer

Saisumanth Gopisetty picture Saisumanth Gopisetty · Aug 23, 2018

Create a backup(backups option) and restore the table with a new table name. That would get all the data into the new table. Note: Takes considerable amount of time depending on the table size

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