dyamodb

Follow the instructions below, either building from scratch or importing existing resources into the stack

Existing resources

How to build CloudFormation stack from existing resources

List the available tables aws dynamodb list-tables

List configuration with aws dynamodb describe-table --table-name=<Table-name>

Join all configurations into dynamodb-import.json

Import existing resources into stack

Create a list of resources to import like in import-resources-db.json from the definitions in dynamodb-import.json

Run command

aws cloudformation create-change-set \
    --stack-name TIDynamoDB --change-set-name ImportChangeSet \
    --change-set-type IMPORT \
    --resources-to-import file://import-resources-db.json \
    --template-body file://dynamodb-import.json

aws cloudformation execute-change-set --change-set-name ImportChangeSet --stack-name TIDynamoDB

Since the import does not allow for outputs to be defined we need to create a new change set with them.

You can construct it in the AWS console using dynamodb.yaml or use --change-set-type UPDATE from the AWS cli.

New resources

Run command

aws cloudformation create-change-set \
    --stack-name TIDynamoDB --change-set-name CreateChangeSet \
    --change-set-type CREATE \
    --template-body file://dynamodb.yaml

aws cloudformation execute-change-set --change-set-name CreateChangeSet --stack-name TIDynamoDB