---
title: "Scaling DynamoDB Capacity using AWS-CDK L1 Construct Library that does not natively support auto-scaling in CfnTable construct"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-dynamodb-capacity-using-aws-cdk-l1-construct-library-that-does-not-natively-support-auto-sca-ays0zurqn
source_url: https://aws.plainenglish.io/scaling-dynamodb-capacity-using-aws-cdk-l1-construct-library-that-does-not-natively-support-cf3ace6d041d
type: article
source: "AWS in Plain English"
published: 2024-05-01T06:59:54.134Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z
tags: ["aws", "aws-cloudformation", "aws-dynamodb"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Scaling DynamoDB Capacity using AWS-CDK L1 Construct Library that does not natively support auto-scaling in CfnTable construct

**[AWS in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/awsplainenglish)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The post discusses the different types of constructs in the AWS CDK and provides examples of how to define a DynamoDB table using these constructs. It also explains how to enable auto-scaling for provisioned read/writes in DynamoDB using AWS CDK.

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Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#aws-cloudformation](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-cloudformation), [#aws-dynamodb](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-dynamodb)

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