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): Indicates a list that is dynamically populated based on the configuration.Field Name | Field Type | Field Dependency | Description | ||
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Label* Default Value: None | String | N/A | Specify a unique label for the account. | ||
AWS Endpoint* Default Value: None | String/Expression
| N/A | Specify the AWS Endpoint URL. Refer to AWS Service Endpoints for more information. | ||
AWS Region* Default Value: None | String/Expression
| N/A | Specify the AWS region where the application is running from the allowed values. | ||
Authenthication Type | Dropdown List | N/A | Select either of the following Authentication Types to create your DynamoDB Account:
Learn more about DynamoDB Account Configuration Scenarios.
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AWS Access Key ID Default Value: None | String /Expression | Appears when you select User Credentials as Authentication Type. | Specify the Access Key ID associated with your AWS authentication. | ||
AWS Secret Key Default Value: N/A | String/Expression | N/A | Specify the Secret Key associated with your AWS authentication. | ||
AWS Security Token Default Value: N/A | String/Expression | N/A | Specify the Security Token to get access to AWS resources using credentials. | ||
Cross Account IAM Role | Use this field set to configure the cross-account access. Learn more about setting - Setting up Cross Account IAM Role. | ||||
Role ARN Default Value: N/A | N/A | Specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the role to assume. | |||
External ID Default Value: N/A | N/A | Specify an External ID that might be required by the role to assume. | |||
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Scenario | Groundplex Type | Role attached to EC2 instance | Authentication Type and other details |
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When the Groundplex type is AWS EC2 and the role attached to the EC2 instance is the DynamoDB access role. | AWS EC2-type | DynamoDB access role. | Select Authentication Type as the IAM Role. |
When the Groundplex type is AWS EC2 and the role attached to the EC2 instance is the DynamoDB Cross Account -account access role. | AWS EC2-type | DynamoDB Cross Account -account access role. | Select Authentication Type as IAM Role and provide details for the Cross account IAM Role. |
When you do not have AWS-EC2 groundplex Groundplex and the role attached to the EC2 instance is the DynamoDB access role. | User does not have AWS-EC2 groundplexGroundplex. Value is from local machine. | DynamoDB access role | Select the Authentication Type as User Credentials and provide details for the following fields:
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When you do not have AWS-EC2 groundplex Groundplex and the role attached to the EC2 instance is the DynamoDB Cross Account -account access role. | User does not have an AWS-EC2 groundplex. Value is from local machine. | DynamoDB Cross Account -account access role. | Select Authentication Type as User Credentials and provide details for the following fields:
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Dynamo DB DynamoDB Permissions
The ListTables permission requires all resources (*) to be selected (as because it needs to be able to list all the DynamoDB tables), but the others can have policies that are more limited (for example, to a particular specific table) as per the DynamoDB API Permissions reference. The Following is the most basic and permissive Policy document that could be assigned to the user that would guarantee all the required permissions are granted would be:.
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{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Stmt1482439123852",
"Action": [
"dynamodb:BatchGetItem",
"dynamodb:BatchWriteItem",
"dynamodb:DescribeTable",
"dynamodb:ListTables",
"dynamodb:Scan",
"dynamodb:UpdateItem"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*"
}
]
} |
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