Downloading and setting up DynamoDB Local

A call to any cloud resource may cost money to you, even if you are just doing development and not talking about any hosting in the production cluster. During development, we may need to try many things, and all those trials would cost us. The development best practices demand us to follow a test-driven development. For continuous integration and builds, it's good to run unit tests and integration tests to make sure that the build is intact. If we keep running unit tests and integration tests on the actual DynamoDB, we may end up paying a lot. To cater to this issue, we have something called as DynamoDB Local.

DynamoDB Local is a small client-side database and server that mimics the actual DynamoDB. It ...

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