Error: dynamodb unknown error
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
What's Causing This Error
This error message indicates an issue with the DynamoDB service; however, the cause of the error is not specified.
The "unknown error" can happen for various reasons, such as a bug in the service, a temporary service outage, or a configuration issue.
Solution: Here's How To Resolve It
To solve this error:
- Check CloudWatch logs for the DynamoDB service to see if there is any additional information about the error.
- Check for recent service health events for DynamoDB service in the AWS service health dashboard.
- Try the operation again after a short period to see if the issue is temporary.
Other Common DynamoDB Errors (with Solutions)
- DynamoDB Duplicate Key Error
- dynamodb: one or more parameter values were invalid: type mismatch for index key
- Float types are not supported. Use decimal types instead.
- Boto3 DynamoDB KeyError
- DynamoDB Is Not Null
- Unable to start DynamoDB Local process
- 'dynamodb' object has no attribute 'table'
- ConfigError: Missing region in config
- DynamoDB No Provisioned Throughput specified for the table
- DynamoDB stream not working
- DynamoDB Key element does not match the schema
- Error ValidationException: One or more parameter values were invalid: Type mismatch for key X expected: S actual: M
- dynamodb no range key value present
- DynamoDB Expression Not Null
- dynamodb table not exists
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