Accessing Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a web service that uses HTTP and HTTPS as a transport and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as a message serialization format. Your application code can make requests directly to the Amazon DynamoDB web service API. When using the API, you must write the necessary code to sign and authenticate your requests. For more information about the API, see Using the Amazon DynamoDB API.

Alternatively, you can simplify application development by using the AWS SDKs that wrap the DynamoDB API calls. You provide your credentials, and these libraries take care of authentication and request signing. For more information about using the AWS SDKs, see Using the AWS SDKs with Amazon DynamoDB.

Amazon DynamoDB also provides a management console that enables you to work with tables and items. You can create, update, and delete tables without writing any code. You can view all the existing items in a table or use a query to filter the items in the table. You can add new items or delete items. You can also use the management console to monitor the performance of your tables. Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics in the console, you can monitor table throughput and other performance metrics. For more information, go to Amazon DynamoDB console.