Error: moto dynamodb not working

Answered by Rafal Wilinski
What's Causing This Error
This error message indicates an issue with the usage of a moto
, a library that allows you to mock the AWS services in your tests. This can happen if moto is not installed correctly, if the version of moto is not compatible with the version of the boto3 library, or if there is an issue with the code that is using moto.
Solution: Here's How To Resolve It
To solve this error, check that moto is correctly installed by running the command pip show moto
and ensure that the version of moto is compatible with the version of boto3 you are using.
Other Common DynamoDB Errors (with Solutions)
- dynamodb ttl not deleting / erasing items
- could not unmarshal the value dynamodb
- AWS CLI DynamoDB Error Parsing Parameter
- ExpressionAttributeValues contains invalid value: One or more parameter values were invalid: An AttributeValue may not contain an empty string
- DynamoDB No Provisioned Throughput specified for the table
- DynamoDB Auto Scaling Not Working
- CORS Error DynamoDB
- missing required key 'key' in params dynamodb
- Conditional Update Error DynamoDB
- dynamodb validation error detected
- DynamoDB internal error
- dynamodb consistent reads are not supported on global secondary indexes
- dynamodb localhost not working
- dynamodb system errors metric
- dynamodb request is missing authentication token
Tired of switching accounts and regions? Use Dynobase.
First 7 days are on us. No strings attached.
Product Features
DynamoDB Tools
DynamoDB Info
© 2025 Dynobase