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Asked: 2026-05-30T07:14:35+00:00

I’m just wondering what’s the standard practice for setting up a separate environment for

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I’m just wondering what’s the standard practice for setting up a separate environment for development to production with domains (/ tables) in Amazon’s Simple DB?

I assume that it could be possible to either:

  • Duplicate the domain/table, and handle the switching in my data access library.
    • If so – how do I best script the table re-creation?
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  • Or, create a second Access Key, and switch the connection string appropriately
    • If so, where can this be done in the AWS portal? I haven’t been able to find any hints that it could be done…

Any comments on what the common practice is, is of course appreciated.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use a different region for development and production. From the AWS console, set up 2 different IAMs accounts and assign a user policy like the following.

    {
    “Statement”: [{
    “Effect”:”Allow”,
    “Action”:[“sdb:*”],
    “Resource”:”arn:aws:sdb:us-west-2:REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_ACCOUNTID:domain/*”
    }]
    }

    By default an IAMs account is denied access. The above policy makes the IAM user a SimpleDB admin within the us-west-2 region. Each IAM account will have a key and secret from AWS. Switch IDs according to your environment. A Google search showed me multiple SDB backup solutions and I assume some will probably allow you to backup from one AWS region and restore to another.

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