Chapter 2. DynamoDB Interfaces

There are a number of interfaces available to make user interaction easy and effective. There are four interfaces that are commonly used to interact with DynamoDB:

  • The management console
  • The Eclipse plugin
  • The command-line interface
  • The REST API

As a part of our discussion in this chapter, we will learn about the first three interfaces. We will discuss the fourth interface in detail in Chapter 6, Working with the DynamoDB API.

The management console

The management console is one of the most commonly used interfaces in DynamoDB because of its simplicity of use. There is another reason that the end user will prefer the management console: it doesn't require any software to start with. Just having an Internet connection and ...

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