Error: Unable to start DynamoDB Local process
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Solution
Error occuring when trying to start a Local offline DynamoDB instance, often appearning when using Serverless Framework.
First, make sure you have Java JDK & JRE (Java Runtime Engine) version 6.x or newer is installed on your machine since it is required by the Local DynamoDB.
Usually error gets fixed by executing the following set of commands:
yarn remove serverless-dynamodb-local yarn add serverless-dynamodb-local@0.2.35 sls dynamodb install
If you want to use versions after 0.2.26 make sure to execute the
following command instead of sls dynamodb install:
sls dynamodb install --localPath ./bin
After you have installed the Local DynamoDB, you can start it by executing the following command:
sls offline start
If DynamoDB Offline is still not running, it might be failing to do so because
port 8000 is already in use. You can run DynamoDB Offline on a
different port by specifying -p option to the
sls offline start command like so:
sls dynamodb start -p 8000
Other Common DynamoDB Errors (with Solutions)
- DynamoDB consistent read not working
- dynamodb could not connect to the endpoint url
- dynamodb query is not null
- dynamodb query is null
- dynamodb attribute does not exist
- a socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network dynamodb
- ConfigError: Missing region in config
- DynamoDB Network Error: self signed certificate in chain
- dynamodb not a managed type
- ImportError: No module named boto3 (DynamoDB)
- accessdeniedexception dynamodb
- dynamodb items page not authorized with read access
- DynamoDB Key element does not match the schema
- dynamodb condition does not exist
- boto3 dynamodb client error