DynamoDB Table Destinations

Proxylity's integration with DynamoDB writes packets arriving at your listener to a DDB table of your choice. Writing packets to a table can be particularly useful as a second destination, allowing packet contents to be quickly queried using connection details and prefix matching on the time of arrival. This is particularly helpful for diagnostic and forensic debugging activities.

Things to know about using DynamoDB Table destinations:

• Your table must be configured with a string primary key and a string sort key.
• The primary key and sort key names are discovered automatically using the dynamodb:DescribeTable API, so you can use names of your choice (though key attribute names must not conflict with RequestPacket property names).
• Records will appear in the table with primary key values containing the interpolated string "{remote_ip}:{remote_port} {local_ip}:{local_port}" and a sort key holding the time of packet arrival in ISO 8601 format.
• The record will contain attributes for each of the properties of the RequestPacket object.
• Although the dynamodb:BatchWriteItem API is capable of deleting records, Proxylity only puts items and you can craft a permission policy using conditions that prevents deletes.
• Consider setting Batching.Count property of your UDP Gateway Destinations to a multiple of 25 items to get the best cost efficiency.

See DynamoDB destinations in action in our DNS Filter example, which stores domain filtering rules and query analytics in DynamoDB tables.