In this blog post, I’ll explain the different options to export data from a dynamodb table to a csv file.
DynamoDB is Amazon AWS’s managed NoSQL database service.
AWS offers a few standard ways to export data to csv files, both are great for some purposes, but if they don’t give you all they need, you’ll find a list of other options in this article.
Standard Offerings
Exporting from the console :
This is useful for quickly exporting small amounts of data to a csv file, but has some shortcomings :
- maximum of 100 records
- If your dynamodb table contains nested documents, the columns in your csv files will contain json objects.