Record - Amazon DynamoDB

Record

A description of a unique event within a stream.

Contents

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

awsRegion

The region in which the GetRecords request was received.

Type: String

Required: No

dynamodb

The main body of the stream record, containing all of the DynamoDB-specific fields.

Type: StreamRecord object

Required: No

eventID

A globally unique identifier for the event that was recorded in this stream record.

Type: String

Required: No

eventName

The type of data modification that was performed on the DynamoDB table:

  • INSERT - a new item was added to the table.

  • MODIFY - one or more of an existing item's attributes were modified.

  • REMOVE - the item was deleted from the table

Type: String

Valid Values: INSERT | MODIFY | REMOVE

Required: No

eventSource

The AWS service from which the stream record originated. For DynamoDB Streams, this is aws:dynamodb.

Type: String

Required: No

eventVersion

The version number of the stream record format. This number is updated whenever the structure of Record is modified.

Client applications must not assume that eventVersion will remain at a particular value, as this number is subject to change at any time. In general, eventVersion will only increase as the low-level DynamoDB Streams API evolves.

Type: String

Required: No

userIdentity

Items that are deleted by the Time to Live process after expiration have the following fields:

  • Records[].userIdentity.type

    "Service"

  • Records[].userIdentity.principalId

    "dynamodb.amazonaws.com"

Type: Identity object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: