Automatic provisioning for AWS DynamoDB tables
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AWS DynamoDB is a great service, but it falls short when it comes to automated throughput scaling. This is where Dynamic DynamoDB enters the stage. It provides automatic read and write provisioning for DynamoDB.
All you need to do is to tell Dynamic DynamoDB at which point and how much you want to scale up or down your DynamoDB. An example is in place. Let’s say you have way more traffic on your database during sales hours 4pm - 10pm. DynamicDB can monitor the increased throughput on your DynamoDB instance (via CloudWatch) and provision more throughput as needed. When the load is reducing Dynamic DynamoDB will sence that and automatically reduce your provisioning.
See an example of how to configure Dynamic DynamoDB under Basic usage or checkout dynamic-dynamodb –help.
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Features in short
Scale up and down DynamoDB automatically
Restrict scaling to certain time slots
Monitor multiple DynamoDB tables at the same time
Gives you control over how much reads and writes you want to scale up and down with
Dynamic DynamoDB has support for max and min limits so that you always knows how much money you spend at most and how much capacity you can be guaranteed
Support for circuit breaker API call. If your service is experiencing disturbances, Dynamic DynamoDB will not scale down your DynamoDB tables
Documentation
Project documentation is hosted at [dynamic-dynamodb.readthedocs.org](http://dynamic-dynamodb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html).
Basic usage
This example will configure Dynamic DynamoDB to:
Scale up your DynamoDB table when the consumed reads 90% of the total provisioned reads
Scale up your DynamoDB table when the consumed writes 90% of the total provisioned writes
Scale up your reads with 50%
Scale up your writes with 40%
Scale down your DynamoDB table when the consumed reads 30% of the total provisioned reads
Scale down your DynamoDB table when the consumed writes 40% of the total provisioned writes
Scale down your reads with 40%
Scale down your writes with 70%
Check for changes every 5 minutes
Command:
- dynamic-dynamodb –table-name my-table
–reads-upper-threshold 90 –reads-lower-threshold 30 –increase-reads-with 50 –decrease-reads-with 40 –writes-upper-threshold 90 –writes-lower-threshold 40 –increase-writes-with 40 –decrease-writes-with 70 –check-interval 300
Please note that using configuration files instead of command line options will give you even more control over the service.
Installation instructions
The easiest way to install Dynamic DynamoDB is through PyPI:
pip install dynamic-dynamodb
Reporting bugs
Please help me by providing feedback and bug reports. You can file bugs in the project’s [GitHub Issues page](https://github.com/sebdah/dynamic-dynamodb/issues).
Provide as much details as possible to make bug fixing as swift as possible.
Git strategy
This project uses [git-flow](https://github.com/nvie/gitflow) for handling branching and releasing in Git. See the following [blog post](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) for more details on how it works.
Releasing to PyPI
make release
License
APACHE LICENSE 2.0 Copyright 2013-2014 Sebastian Dahlgren
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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