AWS AWSCloudFormation documentation change
Summary
Added ScanAll and ScanRate configuration parameters for DynamoDB crawler targets
Security assessment
New parameters control crawler scanning behavior and read capacity usage, but there's no explicit security context or vulnerability mitigation mentioned
Diff
diff --git a/AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-properties-glue-crawler-dynamodbtarget.md b/AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-properties-glue-crawler-dynamodbtarget.md index ac7c083ec..6c1deceed 100644 --- a//AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-properties-glue-crawler-dynamodbtarget.md +++ b//AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-properties-glue-crawler-dynamodbtarget.md @@ -19 +19,3 @@ To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following sy - "Path" : String + "Path" : String, + "ScanAll" : Boolean, + "ScanRate" : Number @@ -26,0 +29,2 @@ To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following sy + ScanAll: Boolean + ScanRate: Number @@ -41,0 +46,26 @@ _Required_ : No +`ScanAll` + + +Indicates whether to scan all the records, or to sample rows from the table. Scanning all the records can take a long time when the table is not a high throughput table. + +A value of `true` means to scan all records, while a value of `false` means to sample the records. If no value is specified, the value defaults to `true`. + +_Required_ : No + + _Type_ : Boolean + + _Update requires_ : [No interruption](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-update-behaviors.html#update-no-interrupt) + +`ScanRate` + + +The percentage of the configured read capacity units to use by the AWS Glue crawler. Read capacity units is a term defined by DynamoDB, and is a numeric value that acts as rate limiter for the number of reads that can be performed on that table per second. + +The valid values are null or a value between 0.1 to 1.5. A null value is used when user does not provide a value, and defaults to 0.5 of the configured Read Capacity Unit (for provisioned tables), or 0.25 of the max configured Read Capacity Unit (for tables using on-demand mode). + +_Required_ : No + + _Type_ : Number + + _Update requires_ : [No interruption](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-update-behaviors.html#update-no-interrupt) +