DynamoDB CLI commands

Connecting to a local (Docker)/prod (AWS) DynamoDB instance

In order to distinguish between local and production accounts you should keep seperate profiles for each (via .aws/config and .aws/credentials).

When connecting to a local DB use the local profile and the local URL. Without the --profile flag, AWS will default to the default profile which will typically be your credentials for accessing AWS on the remote.

It also sometimes required to add the endpoint-url when working locally:

--endpoint-url http://localhost:800

> When using the commans below locally, assume `--endpoint-url` and `--profile`
> have been appended

For example:

aws dynamodb list-tables \
--profile timetracking_dev \
--endpoint-url http://localhost:800

Delete a table

aws dynamodb delete-table \
--table-name TableName

Create table from JSON schema

aws dynamodb create-table \
--cli-input-json file://create-timeentries-table.json \

Describe the table

View the table schema:

aws dynamodb describe-table \
--table-name TimeEntries

Scan the table

aws dynamodb scan \
--table-name TimeEntries \
--output table

Related notes