Error: DynamoDB Missing Authentication Token

Answered by Rafal Wilinski
What's Causing This Error
The most frequent cause for this error is trying to access a DynamoDB table without providing proper credentials.
Solution: Here's How To Resolve It
When making requests to DynamoDB, ensure that you have included the appropriate AWS access key and the Secret key in the request to prevent this error from occurring. Alternatively, you can use IAM roles and policies to grant table access. Ensure that you have specified the correct region when creating the DynamoDB client.
Also, check whether the IAM role you use has the necessary permissions to perform the operations you are trying to perform on the DynamoDB table by reviewing the IAM policies for the user.
Other Common DynamoDB Errors (with Solutions)
- DynamoDB No Provisioned Throughput specified for the table
- Could not connect to the endpoint URL https:dynamodb.singapore.amazonaws.com
- AWS DynamoDB errors ResourceNotFoundException
- dynamodb no range key value present
- dynamodb trigger no records processed
- dynamodb table did not stabilize
- appsync dynamodb not seeing all fields
- dynamodb local unable to locate credentials
- DynamoDB ValidationException: Query condition missed key schema element
- dynamodb unable to locate credentials
- DynamoDB Error Message KeyError item is not JSON serializable
- DynamoDB Is Unsupported It Cannot Be Instantiated
- dynamodb: one or more parameter values were invalid: type mismatch for index key
- could not unconvert attribute dynamodb
- Boto3 DynamoDB KeyError
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