I am using Data Pipeline (DP) for daily backups of DynamoDB, however, I would like to do incremental backups of the data that is missed by DP runs (updates between DP runs). To accomplish that, I would like to use DynamoDB Streams + Lambda + S3 to bring real-time DynamoDB updates to S3. I understand how DynamoDB streams work, however, I am struggling with creating a Lambda function that writes to S3 and say rolls a file every hour.
Has anyone tried it?
Its an hour job dude,What you need to do is
Enable Dynamo DB update Stream and attach aws provided lambda function
https://github.com/awslabs/lambda-streams-to-firehose
Enable Firehose stream and use above function to stream outs records in firehose.
Configure Firehose to dump the records to S3.
done.
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i am working in the IoT Space with 2 Databases. AWS Time Stream & AWS DynamoDB.
My sensor data is coming into Time Stream via AWS IoT Core and MQTT. I set up a rule, that gives permission to transfer the incoming data directly into Time Stream.
What i need to do now is to run some operations on the data and save the result of these operations into DynamoDB.
I know with DynamoDB there is function called DynamoDB Streams. Is there a solution like Streams in Time Stream as well? Or does anybody has an idea, how i can automatically transfer the results of the operations from Time Stream to DynamoDB?
Timestream does not have Change Data Capture capabilities.
Best thing to do is to write the data into DynamoDB from wherever you are doing your operations on Timestream. For example, if you are using AWS Glue to analyze your Timestream data, you can sink the results directly from Glue using the DynamoDB sink.
Timestream has the concept of Schedule Query. When a query has ran, you can be notified via a SNS topic. You could connect a lambda on that SNS topic to retrieve the query result and store it in DynamoDB.
I have gone through couple of stackoverflow questions regarding hourly backups from DDB to S3 where the best solution turned out to be to enable DDB Stream, subscribe lambda function and push to S3.
I am trying to understand if directly pushing from Lambda to S3 is fine or from Lambda to Kinesis Firehose and then to S3. Can someone share what is the advantage if we introduce Firehose in between. We anyways trigger lambda only after specific batch window that implies we are already buffering there.
Thanks in advance.
Firehose gives you the possibility to convert and compress your data. In addition you can directly attach a Glue Metadata table, so you can query your data with Athena.
You can write a Lambda function that reads a DynamoDB table, gets a result set, encodes the data to some format (ie, JSON), then place that JSON into an Amazon S3 bucket. You can use scheduled events to fire off the Lambda function on a regular schedule.
Here in AWS tutorial that shows you how to use scheduled events to invoke a Lambda function:
Creating scheduled events to invoke Lambda functions
This AWS tutorial also shows you how to read data from an Amazon DynamoDB table from a Lambda function.
I want to move(export) data from DynamoDB to S3
I have seen this tutorial but i'm not sure if the extracted data of dynamoDB will be deleted or coexits in DynamoDB and S3 at the same time.
What I expect is the data from dynamoDB will be deleted and stored in s3 (after X time stored in DynamoDB)
The main purpose of the project could be similar to this
There are any way to do this without have to develop a lambda function?
In resume, I have found this 2 different ways:
DynamoDB -> Pipeline -> S3 (Are the dynamoDB data deleted?)
DynamoDB -> TTL DynamoDB + DynamoDB stream -> Lambda -> firehose -> s3 (this appears to be more difficult)
Is this post currently valid for this purpouse?
What would be the simpliest and fasted way?
In your first option, as per default, data is not removed from dynamoDB. You can design a pipeline to make this work, but I think that is not the best solution.
In your second option, you must evaluate the solution based on your expected data volume:
If the data volume that will expire in TTL definition is not very
large, you can use lambda to persist removed data into S3 without
Firehose. You can design a simple lambda function to be triggered by
DynamoDB Stream and persist each stream event as a S3 object. You
can even trigger another lambda function to consolidate the objects
in a single file in the end of the day, week or month. But again,
based on your expected volume.
If you have a lot of data being expired at the same time and you
must perform transformations on this data, the best solution is to
use Firehose. Firehose can proceed with the transformation,
encryption and compact your data before sending it to S3. If the
volume of data is to big, using functions in the end of the day,
week or month may not be feasible. So it's better to perform all
this procedures before persisting it.
You can use AWS Pipeline to dump DynamoDB table to S3 and it will not be deleted.
I am want to write streaming data from S3 bucket into Redshift through Firehose as the data is streaming in real time (600 files every minute) and I dont want any form of data loss.
How to put data from S3 into Kinesis Firehose?
It appears that your situation is:
Files randomly appear in S3 from an SFTP server
You would like to load the data into Redshift
There's two basic ways you could do this:
Load the data directly from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift, or
Send the data through Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Frankly, there's little benefit in sending it via Kinesis Firehose because Kinesis will simply batch it up, store it into temporary S3 files and then load it into Redshift. Therefore, this would not be a beneficial approach.
Instead, I would recommend:
Configure an event on the Amazon S3 bucket to send a message to an Amazon SQS queue whenever a file is created
Configure Amazon CloudWatch Events to trigger an AWS Lambda function periodically (eg every hour, or 15 minutes, or whatever meets your business need)
The AWS Lambda function reads the messages from SQS and constructs a manifest file, then triggers Redshift to import the files listed in the manifest file
This is a simple, loosely-coupled solution that will be much simpler than the Firehose approach (which would require somehow reading each file and sending the contents to Firehose).
Its actually designed to do the opposite, Firehose sends incoming streaming data to Amazon S3 not from Amazon S3, and other than S3 it can send data to other services like Redshift and Elasticsearch Service.
I don't know whether this will solve your problem but you can use COPY from S3 to redshift.
Hope it will help!
When i read about AWS data pipeline the idea immediately struck - produce statistics to kinesis and create a job in pipeline that will consume data from kinesis and COPY it to redshift every hour. All in one go.
But it seems there is no node in pipeline that can consume kinesis. So now i have two possible plans of action:
Create instance where Kinesis's data will be consumed and sent to S3 split by hours. Pipeline will copy from there to Redshift.
Consume from Kinesis and produce COPY directly to Redshift on the spot.
What should I do? Is there no way to connect Kinesis to redshift using AWS services only, without custom code?
It is now possible to do so without user-code via a new managed service called Kinesis Firehose. It manages the desired buffering intervals, temp uploads to s3, upload to Redshift, error handling and auto throughput management.
That is already done for you!
If you use the Kinesis Connector Library, there is a built-in connector to Redshift
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connectors
Depending on the logic you have to process connector can be really easy to implement.
You can create and orchestrate complete pipeline with InstantStack to read data from Kinesis, transform it and push it into any Redshift or S3.