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Discussion on: Exploring AWS CDK - Loading DynamoDB with Custom Resources

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Rehan van der Merwe •

Hi Matt,

I wrote an article on Importing data into DynamoDB as fast as possible with as little as possible effort. rehanvdm.com/serverless/dynamodb-i...

So you can put your Custom Resource on steroids if you rather pass the S3 path to the data you want to import as a param. Then stream from S3 and write to Dynamo in parallel.

I only started to play with CDK a week ago and absolutely love it, it is a must for anyone doing raw cloud formation.

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Matt Morgan •

Those are some great insights, thanks Rehan! I've been working on generating the data in a lambda and loading it - this should help a lot. I also think that teams might want to check a csv into source control representing different scenarios (for test automation, for example) that could get automatically provisioned and streamed to the DB.

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Rehan van der Merwe •

Yes brilliant idea, new environments will then have consistent data after being created, great for testing scenarios.