Question: How to connect to DynamoDB?

Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
To connect to Amazon DynamoDB, you must use the AWS SDK for your programming language of choice. The SDK provides a client for DynamoDB that you can use to interact with the service. Here is an example of how to connect to DynamoDB using the AWS SDK for Python (boto3):
import boto3 # Connect to DynamoDB dynamodb = boto3.client('dynamodb')
You can also use Dynobase to connect to your DynamoDB tables easily.
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