Setting up of AWS Command Line

This section describes how to set up AWS Command Line Interface and dynamo-db.

Procedure:

1. Download AWS CLI from here.
2. From the installed location, configure aws by providing the details such as Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, Region and Output Format.

   $ aws configure

   AWS Access Key ID [None]:               EXAMPLEKEYID

   AWS Secret Access Key [None]:        EXAMPLEKEY

   Default region name [one]:                 us-west-2

   Default output format [None]:

   The configuration details are stored in config & credentials file under USERS directory.

3. Download dynamo-db from here.
4. From the installed location, execute the below command.

   java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb to launch dynamo-db.

   You can now access dynamo-db from AWS CLI.

   aws dynamodb list-tables

   aws dynamodb scan --table-name example-table-name