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)
- Why is DynamoDB so expensive?
- Is DynamoDB ACID compliant?
- How to access DynamoDB from EC2?
- Can a DynamoDB range key be a GSI key?
- Can DynamoDB store images?
- Is DynamoDB based on MongoDB?
- Can we pass objects as an item in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB a backend database?
- How resilient is DynamoDB?
- How do you store JSON on DynamoDB?
- Can DynamoDB be used like a relational database?
- How to write complex queries for a DynamoDB table?
- Can we rename DynamoDB table?
- Can DynamoDB be replicated?
- Can DynamoDB have duplicates?
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