airbnb / airbnb/streamalert

Enable DynamoBD On-Demand feature

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Description

## Background
[AWS announced DynamoDB On-Demand feature](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-no-capacity-planning-and-pay-per-request-pricing/) at Nov 28th, 2018 right after Re:Invent. This feature will really easy out our pain to scale DynamoDB tables even have autoscaling policy applied.

## Desired Change
Support DynamoDB On-Demand in terraform module as an optional setting.

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Research direction

Start by locating the Terraform module and its existing DynamoDB capacity settings. Confirm how an optional On-Demand setting should be represented, then verify that the module can create a table using On-Demand capacity without breaking existing configurations.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws, terraform
Domain
cloud, databases, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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