Ensure that your Amazon DynamoDB tables have Deletion Protection feature enabled in order to protect them from being accidentally deleted.
With Deletion Protection safety feature enabled, you have the guarantee that your Amazon DynamoDB tables can't be accidentally deleted and make sure that your data remains safe. Deletion protection prevents any existing or new tables from being deleted by any users through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS API calls, unless the feature is explicitly disabled within the table configuration.
Audit
To determine if your Amazon DynamoDB tables are protected against accidental deletion, perform the following operations:
Remediation / Resolution
To enable Deletion Protection feature for your existing Amazon DynamoDB tables, perform the following operations:
References
- AWS Documentation
- Amazon DynamoDB FAQs
- Working with tables, items, queries, scans, and indexes
- Working with tables and data in DynamoDB
- Basic operations on DynamoDB tables
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- list-tables
- describe-table
- update-table
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