Running the code examples in this Developer Guide - Amazon DynamoDB
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Running the code examples in this Developer Guide

The Amazon SDKs provide broad support for Amazon DynamoDB in the following languages:

To get started quickly with these languages, see Getting started with DynamoDB and the Amazon SDKs.

The code examples in this developer guide provide more in-depth coverage of DynamoDB operations, using the following programming languages:

Before you can begin with this exercise, you need to create an Amazon account, get your access key and secret key, and set up the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) on your computer. For more information, see Setting up DynamoDB (web service) .

Note

If you are using the downloadable version of DynamoDB, you need to use the Amazon CLI to create the tables and sample data. You also need to specify the --endpoint-url parameter with each Amazon CLI command. For more information, see Setting the local endpoint .