June 19, 2026

DynamoDB connector support in Forward

Forward now supports the DynamoDB Connector. You can use it to mirror an Amazon DynamoDB table into a Tinybird Data Source with an initial Point-in-Time Recovery export to S3, followed by Change Data Capture from DynamoDB Streams.

DynamoDB connectors in Forward need to be defined in a .connection file containing the IAM access policy required to access the underlying resources. To simplify setup, the Forward CLI includes a guided wizard that walks the user through the configuration process: tb connection create dynamodb. DynamoDB connections are also fully supported in our TypeScript & Python SDKs.

If you are already using DynamoDB connections and want to migrate from Classic to Forward, see the updated Migrate from Classic with Connectors guide. The migration can be performed using the tb —cloud pull and tb migrate-to-forward commands.

Kafka ingestion pause visibility

Kafka Data Sources now show an ingestion-paused state in the UI when the Connector Circuit Breaker is open. The Data Source page includes a paused ingestion banner, links to logs, an inspect-error action, and a tb deploy hint for manual retry.

When ingestion is paused by the Circuit Breaker, Tinybird now retries automatically every 12 hours. If a retry succeeds, ingestion resumes without manual intervention. You can still run tb deploy to retry sooner after fixing the underlying connection issue. See Kafka logs for details.

Improvements and bug fixes

  • [Forward]: It is now possible to only change the connection used by a Kafka Datasource. Previously, we incorrectly detected "no changes".
  • [Forward]: Replacing all columns in a Data Source now forces the schema-change and backfill path instead of trying an invalid ALTER that drops every existing column.
  • [All]: Playgrounds now debounce table descriptions, reuse known Data Source metadata, and cache successful DESCRIBE results to avoid repeated network calls while typing.
  • [All]: Deleting the Workspace Admin token is no longer possible.
  • [All]: Cloud now keeps the header and sidebar visible when Workspace access is blocked because an Organization has unpaid invoices. Organization admins see a billing link, and other Workspace members see how to contact their Organization admins.
  • [All]: Dedicated Organization observability no longer shows CPU and memory charts on the Observability page. Those metrics now live on the Cluster page, and the Observability page links there.
  • [All]: NDJSON URL imports can now be tuned per Workspace for max_threads, max_insert_threads, and max_memory_usage.
  • [All]: HFI NDJSON ingestion now skips the sampling path when the sampling budget is exhausted, avoiding unnecessary JSON parsing on hot Data Sources.