Error: DynamoDB Internal Server Error
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Solution
DynamoDB responds with such error when something is wrong on AWS side. These kind of errors are expected from time to time due to the nature of distributed systems. There's
not much we can do about it. Try retrying your request. You can also check the
AWS Status Dashboard
to see if there's an error with AWS Cloud right now.
Apart from that you can setup a Cloudwatch Alarm using SystemErrors metric which is incremented each time DynamoDB responds with a 500 HTTP error.
Other Common DynamoDB Errors (with Solutions)
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- DynamoDB type is not supported
- DynamoDB throttling error
- dynamodb could not be mapped for type string
- DynamoDB cannot delete the table
- DynamoDB is not showing all columns
- DynamoDB delete fails
- DynamoDB local is not available for stage test
- DynamoDB string set cannot be empty
- DynamoDB validation error
- dynamodb attribute does not exist
- DynamoDB BatchSave not working
- DynamoDB scan filter expression not working
- DynamoDB ConditionalCheckFailedException
- KMS Key Access Denied Error DynamoDB
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