DynamoDB Cookbook

Creating a DynamoDB read-only group using AWS IAM

In this recipe, we will create a user group who will have a read-only access to DynamoDB.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you need to know how to access the DynamoDB console.

How to do it…

Let's create read-only group using AWS IAM;

1. Create a user group, as described in the previous recipe, with the name dynamodb-read-only-group and attach the AmazonDynamoDBReadOnlyAccess policy, as shown in the following screenshot:
   
2. Once the group is created and the policy is attached to it, you may add users to the group. You can refer to the previous recipe for more details. Here, I am adding dynamodb-user-2 to ...