Get last updated time for DynamoDB table

Question

Is there any way to get the timestamp for the most recent update on a DynamoDB table?

Answer 1

No. This is not part of the DynamoDB api. Fortunately this is easy to implement yourself. Add a column to each item for each UpdateItem or PutItem request with the current time. This will insert the time according to your application servers instead of DynamoDB itself, but these ideally will be the same