# Setting up DynamoDB
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 In addition to the Amazon DynamoDB web service, AWS provides a downloadable version of DynamoDB that you can run on your computer. The downloadable version is helpful for developing and testing your code. It lets you write and test applications locally without accessing the DynamoDB web service. 

 The topics in this section describe how to set up DynamoDB (downloadable version) and the DynamoDB web service. 

**Topics**
+ [Setting up DynamoDB (web service)](SettingUp.DynamoWebService.md)
+ [Setting up DynamoDB local (downloadable version)](DynamoDBLocal.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon DynamoDB. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query amazondynamodb` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).