Cross-Account DynamoDB Table Creation for Kinesis Data Streams Consumer in Amazon ECS #267
Description
We have a setup where:
Account A (Customer Account) hosts our Amazon Connect instance in the us-west-2 region. This instance streams Agent Events to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) in the same region.
Account B (Our AWS Account) hosts our ECS Cluster, which acts as the KDS Consumer.
Our objective is to create all three DynamoDB tables—checkpointing, worker metrics, and coordinator state—in Account B (where our ECS Cluster is deployed).
However, we have observed that these DynamoDB tables are being created in the same region as the KDS stream (us-west-2), rather than in Account B as intended.
Question:
Is there a way to explicitly configure the DynamoDB table creation in Account B while still consuming Kinesis Data Streams from Account A? If so, what would be the recommended approach?
Would appreciate any guidance or best practices on achieving this setup.