AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Joe Feeney
How to export an Amazon DynamoDB table to Amazon S3 using AWS Step Functions and AWS Glue
In this post, I show you how to use AWS Glue’s DynamoDB integration and AWS Step Functions to create a workflow to export your DynamoDB tables to S3 in Parquet. I also show how to create an Athena view for each table’s latest snapshot, giving you a consistent view of your DynamoDB table exports.
How Goodreads offloads Amazon DynamoDB tables to Amazon S3 and queries them using Amazon Athena
In this post, we show you how to export data from a DynamoDB table, convert it into a more efficient format with AWS Glue, and query the data with Athena. This approach gives you a way to pull insights from your data stored in DynamoDB.