The goal of this post is to walk through the creation of a AWS test environment which I use to explore the Python SDK interactions with DyanmoDB. For learning I use the free tier and so used to create the environment as needed manually. After doing this once I decided to encapsulate the configuration in a Cloud …

My goal here is to setup a simple RESTful API which accepts GET and POST methods to trigger a Lambda Function to read and put information into DynamoDB. First we’ll create a test DynamoDB table and put some items into it, aws dynamodb create-table --table-name 'MyTable' --attribute-definitions …

AWS dynamoDB is a really useful key-value store which is really easy to consume from scripts. However while the AWS Powershell module contains functions for ‘Managing Tables’ it does not contain functions for ‘Reading Data’ or ‘Modifying Data’. I had found Julian Biddle had written a …