Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Operations in DynamoDB
The DynamoDB REST API supports almost all the possible operations that are supported
by the SDK and the management console. The possible operations are:
•
CreateTable
•
PutItem
•
UpdateItem
•
GetItem
•
Query
•
Scan
•
DeleteItem
•
DescribeTable
•
UpdateTable
•
DeleteTable
•
ListTables
•
BatchGetItem
•
BatchWriteItem
For all of these operations, only two things will change. The first is the request body and
the second is
x-amz-target
, which specifies what kind of table operation has to be per-
formed. This attribute is the same as that of the name of the operation as shown in the pre-
vious bullet list. For example, to perform the
DescribeTable
operation,
x-amz-tar-
get
is
DynamoDB_20120810.DescribeTable
itself, so we will not be explaining it
in the following text.
