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.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- Is connection pooling needed for DynamoDB?
- Why is DynamoDB so expensive?
- Is DynamoDB cost effective?
- Are DynamoDB table names supposed to be unique?
- Should you make a new DynamoDB client for each request?
- Is DynamoDB a key-value store?
- Which AWS regions support DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB real-time?
- What is DynamoDB used for?
- Is DynamoDB a memory store?
- Is DynamoDB columnar database?
- Can DynamoDB have duplicates?
- When to use DynamoDB?
- Can DynamoDB have multiple tables?
- How to access DynamoDB from Android Studio?
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