Updating throughput in DynamoDB global secondary indexes with boto

example-update.py

connection.update_table(
    table_name='MailPostsExperimet',
    global_secondary_index_updates=[
        {
            "Update": {
                "IndexName": "gsiPosts",
                "ProvisionedThroughput": {
                    "ReadCapacityUnits": 2,
                    "WriteCapacityUnits": 2
                }
            }
        }
    ]
)

ipython-output.py

In [35]: table.describe()
Out[35]:
{u'Table': {u'AttributeDefinitions': [{u'AttributeName': u'Subject',
    u'AttributeType': u'S'},
   {u'AttributeName': u'postDate', u'AttributeType': u'S'},
   {u'AttributeName': u'postId', u'AttributeType': u'N'}],
  u'CreationDateTime': 1386880069.946,
  u'GlobalSecondaryIndexes': [{u'IndexName': u'gsiPosts',
    u'IndexSizeBytes': 204,
    u'IndexStatus': u'ACTIVE',
    u'ItemCount': 5,
    u'KeySchema': [{u'AttributeName': u'postId', u'KeyType': u'HASH'},
     {u'AttributeName': u'Subject', u'KeyType': u'RANGE'}],
    u'Projection': {u'ProjectionType': u'KEYS_ONLY'},
    u'ProvisionedThroughput': {u'ReadCapacityUnits': 1,
     u'WriteCapacityUnits': 1}}],
  u'ItemCount': 5,
  u'KeySchema': [{u'AttributeName': u'postId', u'KeyType': u'HASH'},
   {u'AttributeName': u'postDate', u'KeyType': u'RANGE'}],
  u'LocalSecondaryIndexes': [{u'IndexName': u'lsiPosts',
    u'IndexSizeBytes': 244,
    u'ItemCount': 5,
    u'KeySchema': [{u'AttributeName': u'postId', u'KeyType': u'HASH'},
     {u'AttributeName': u'postDate', u'KeyType': u'RANGE'}],
    u'Projection': {u'ProjectionType': u'ALL'}}],
  u'ProvisionedThroughput': {u'LastDecreaseDateTime': 1387214748.435,
   u'NumberOfDecreasesToday': 0,
   u'ReadCapacityUnits': 1,
   u'WriteCapacityUnits': 1},
  u'TableName': u'MailPostsExperimet',
  u'TableSizeBytes': 244,
  u'TableStatus': u'ACTIVE'}}