Amazon DynamoDB

Tools: awscli

Default port: 4566

1) List tables on the DynamoDB

aws --endpoint-url=http://ENDPOINT_URL:PORT dynamodb list-tables 

2) List contents of the table

aws --endpoint-url=http://ENDPOINT_URL:PORT dynamodb scan --table-name TABLE 

3) Create a table with specific characteristics

aws --endpoint-url=http://ENDPOINT_URL:PORT dynamodb create-table --table-name TABLE --attribute-definitions AttributeName=NAME,AttributeType=TYPE --key-schema AttributeName=NAME,AttributeType=S,KeyType=HASH provisioned-throughput ReadCapacityUnits=NUM,WriteCapacityUnits=NUM 

4) Creates an item for the specified table

aws --endpoint-url=http://ENDPOINT_URL:PORT dynamodb put-item --table-name TABLE --item '{"NAME":{"S":"WHATEVER"} 

TIP: If we are in a machine that has the database internally, before we use aws configure we must make sure we define as the home directory somewhere our current user has permissions.

1)

mkdir /tmp/f

2)

export HOME=/tmp/f

3)

aws configure (We are good to go!)