Chapter 1. Taking Your First Steps with DynamoDB

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Signing up to the DynamoDB console
  • Creating the DynamoDB table using the console
  • Loading data into the table using the console
  • Querying data using the DynamoDB console
  • Deleting the DynamoDB table using the console
  • Analyzing DynamoDB metric on CloudWatch
  • Downloading and setting up DynamoDB Local
  • Using DynamoDB Local JavaScript Shell
  • Setting up AWS Command Line Interface for DynamoDB
  • Setting up the Eclipse IDE

Introduction

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed and cloud-hosted NoSQL database. NoSQL databases allow us to have a schema-less design for the tables. We only need to define the key, and the rest of the attributes can be defined at the time of record ...

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