How to delete huge data from DynamoDB table in AWS

Question

Hi Team,

I have a DyanamoDB table in AWS. It contains a huge amount of data. I want to delete the data from the DyanamoDB table. Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

If you required to delete all the items, you may consider dropping and re-creating the DynamoDB table. This is the fastest & simplest method if all the items are to be deleted from the table, without spending time in scanning and deleting each item. You can use the below command from your AWS CLI.

$ aws dynamodb delete-table --table-name test_data