Error: Dynamodb error 500

Answered by Rafal Wilinski
What's Causing This Error
This is a general error code indicating an internal server error. It can be caused by a variety of issues, such as:
- Improperly formatted requests
- Issues with the DynamoDB service itself
- Timeout issues
- Insufficient provisioned throughput on the table or global secondary index
- Concurrent requests exceeding the provisioned throughput of a table or global secondary index.
Solution: Here's How To Resolve It
To solve this error, you can take the following steps:
- Double-check the format of the requests sent to the DynamoDB service to ensure they are properly formatted.
- Check the DynamoDB service status page to see if there are any known issues.
- Check the provisioned throughput on the table or global secondary index and increase it if necessary.
- Consider implementing exponential backoff to handle retries for failed requests.
- Check the CloudWatch metrics for the DynamoDB table to see if you exceed the read and write capacity units.
If the issue persists, you may contact AWS support for further assistance.
Other Common DynamoDB Errors (with Solutions)
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- Unable to start DynamoDB Local process
- dynamodb list_append returns true but does not work
- DynamoDB throttling error
- DynamoDB BatchSave not working
- dynamodb unknown error
- dynamodb throughput error
- DynamoDB Contains not working
- dynamodb put item not working
- ConfigError: Missing region in config
- an expression attribute name used in the document path is not defined
- DynamoDB could not invoke null on class
- DynamoDB scan limit not working
- Error ValidationException: One or more parameter values were invalid: Type mismatch for key X expected: S actual: M
- DynamoDB delete fails
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