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Dynamodb

Amazon DynamoDB Streams API

API for capturing and processing change data from DynamoDB tables in near real-time, providing time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io AsyncAPI GitHub

This event API exposes 0 operations across 2 channels, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by AsyncAPI 3.0.0, at version 2012-08-10.

The API connects through 2 servers: streams.dynamodb.{region}.amazonaws.com (https), lambda.{region}.amazonaws.com (https).

0 operations 2 channels 9 schemas

Metadata

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Specification
AsyncAPI 3.0.0
API Version
2012-08-10
Base URL
https://streams.dynamodb.{region}.amazonaws.com
Contact
Amazon Web Services
License
Apache 2.0

Messages & Schemas 9

The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data carried by its messages. The most detailed are AttributeValue (10 properties), StreamDescription (9 properties), StreamRecord (8 properties), Shard (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

StreamRecordInsert
message
A stream record generated when a new item is inserted
StreamRecordModify
message
A stream record generated when an existing item is modified
StreamRecordRemove
message
A stream record generated when an item is deleted
LambdaStreamEvent
message
Batch of DynamoDB stream records delivered to a Lambda function
AttributeValue
object
Represents the data for an attribute. DynamoDB sends attribute values using the DynamoDB JSON format with type descriptors.
10 properties
StreamRecord
object
A description of a unique event within a stream. Each stream record represents a single data modification in the DynamoDB table to which the stream belongs.
8 properties 6 required
LambdaEvent
object
The event object that AWS Lambda receives when invoked by a DynamoDB Streams event source mapping. Contains a batch of stream records.
1 property 1 required
StreamDescription
object
Represents all of the data describing a particular stream, returned by the DescribeStream API operation.
9 properties
Shard
object
A uniquely identified group of stream records within a stream. Shards have a hierarchical parent-child relationship where child shards contain records that wer…
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable AsyncAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

dynamodb-streams-asyncapi.yml Raw ↑
#Change Data Capture#Event-Driven#Real-Time#Streams
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API Details
ID
dynamodb:amazon-dynamodb-streams-api
Base URL
https://streams.dynamodb.{region}.amazonaws.com
Docs
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Streams.html
Provider
Dynamodb
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