AWS: How to backup DynamoDB Local tables and import to AWS Service

Question

I setup DynamoDB Local on a EC2 instance, loaded a dozen of tables with Python API.

java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -inMemory

Now I notice that the tables are stored in memory, and want to export the data and load to dynamodb web service . I didn't find any useful functions to export the db tables to a file ( https://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/dynamodb.html ).

I tried to access the local db through url http://ip:8000 , unfortunately it's not working:

--2017-08-20 21:49:19--  http://localhost:8000/
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:8000... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request
2017-08-20 21:49:19 ERROR 400: Bad Request.

Any suggestion is appreciated

Answer 1

There is a plugin https://github.com/99xt/dynamodb-schema-migrate which you could use to migrate the schema from to an AWS account. You can modify it a bit and use the local schema and use it to migrate the schema.