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Setting up DynamoDB (web service) - Amazon DynamoDB
Signing up for AmazonConfiguring your credentialsIntegrating with other DynamoDB services
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Setting up DynamoDB (web service)

To use the Amazon DynamoDB web service:

  1. Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

  2. Configure your credentials (used to access DynamoDB programmatically).

    Note

    If you plan to interact with DynamoDB only through the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you don't need an Amazon access key, and you can skip ahead to Using the console.

Signing up for Amazon

Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

If you do not have an Amazon Web Services account, use the following procedure to create one.

To sign up for Amazon Web Services

  1. Open http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choose Sign Up.

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Amazon sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by going to http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choosing My Account.

Secure IAM users

After you sign up for an Amazon Web Services account, safeguard your administrative user by turning on multi-factor authentication (MFA). For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for an IAM user (console) in the IAM User Guide.

To give other users access to your Amazon Web Services account resources, create IAM users. To secure your IAM users, turn on MFA and only give the IAM users the permissions needed to perform their tasks.

For more information about creating and securing IAM users, see the following topics in the IAM User Guide:

Configuring your credentials

Before you can access DynamoDB programmatically or through the Amazon CLI, you must configure your credentials to enable authorization for your applications.

There are several ways to do this. For example, you can manually create the credentials file to store your access key ID and secret access key. You also can use the Amazon CLI command aws configure to automatically create the file. Alternatively, you can use environment variables. For more information about configuring your credentials, see the programming-specific Amazon SDK developer guide.

To install and configure the Amazon CLI, see Using the Amazon CLI.

Integrating with other DynamoDB services

You can integrate DynamoDB with many other Amazon services. For more information, see the following: