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)
- What are the key differences between DynamoDB and Elasticsearch?
- How to access DynamoDB from Apache Storm?
- Is DynamoDB ACID compliant?
- Is DynamoDB highly available?
- How to grab data from AWS DynamoDB?
- How to create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
- Is DynamoDB a key-value store?
- How to store Japanese characters in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB cost effective?
- How do parallelize requests in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB document-based?
- Should you make a new DynamoDB client for each request?
- How to write complex queries for a DynamoDB table?
- How do I create an id in DynamoDB?
- How many secondary indexes are allowed per table DynamoDB?
Tired of AWS Console? Try Dynobase.
First 7 days are on us. No strings attached.
Product Features
DynamoDB Tools
DynamoDB Info
© 2025 Dynobase