Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

The Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3 API Reference Guide describes in detail all the API operations for the Amazon SDK for JavaScript version 3 (V3).

Use JavaScript promises

Use the service client's Amazon SDK for JavaScript v3 method ( ListTablesCommand )to make the service call and manage asynchronous flow instead of using callbacks. The following example shows how to get the names of your Amazon DynamoDB tables in us-west-2.

import { DynamoDBClient, 
        ListTablesCommand 
} from "@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb";
const dbClient = new DynamoDBClient({ region: 'us-west-2' });

dbClient
  .listtables(new ListTablesCommand({}))
  .then(response => {
    console.log(response.TableNames.join('\n'));
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
  });

Coordinate multiple promises

In some situations, your code must make multiple asynchronous calls that require action only when they have all returned successfully. If you manage those individual asynchronous method calls with promises, you can create an additional promise that uses the all method.

This method fulfills this umbrella promise if and when the array of promises that you pass into the method are fulfilled. The callback function is passed an array of the values of the promises passed to the all method.

In the following example, an Amazon Lambda function must make three asynchronous calls to Amazon DynamoDB but can only complete after the promises for each call are fulfilled.

const values = await Promise.all([firstPromise, secondPromise, thirdPromise]);

console.log("Value 0 is " + values[0].toString);
console.log("Value 1 is " + values[1].toString);
console.log("Value 2 is " + values[2].toString);

return values;

Browser and Node.js support for promises

Support for native JavaScript promises (ECMAScript 2015) depends on the JavaScript engine and version in which your code executes. To help determine the support for JavaScript promises in each environment where your code needs to run, see the ECMAScript compatibility table on GitHub.