Creating a Kinesis Stream on existing DynamoDB table

Question

I already have an existing DynamoDB table when regularly gets updated with data from an upstream source. How can I create a new Kinesis stream to consume updates from the table in AWS CDK?

From other posts, I see that the ddb table must be enabled with streaming at the time of creation. Is there a workaround for this in CDK?

Answer 1

You can simply enable KDS on DynamoDB by passing the newly created stream as IStream into the kinesisStream parameter of your tables construct.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_dynamodb.Table.html#kinesisstream