An overview of tools to export from DynamodDB to CSV.

Quodlibet
3 min readJan 7, 2016

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.

Using AWS Data…

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