Database Reference
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The command-line interface
You can't beat classics, can you? Even though the previous two interfaces provide easy us-
age of DynamoDB, the command-line interface provides good flexibility and it makes life
simple for advanced programmers by reducing the number of clicks; instead of using the
management console or the Eclipse plugin for DynamoDB interaction, we can write some
commands and program it to do certain redundant jobs.
To get the AWS CLI, go to the link shown in the following screenshot:
Visit
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/AWSCLI64.msi
to download the AWS CLI setup.
Once the installation is complete, go to the path in the command prompt (the path might
differ based on the platform, in my case the path is
C:\Program
Files\Amazon\AWSCLI
). Run the
aws configure
command to configure CLI with
our AWS credentials.
Hitting
Enter
will ask for the following four options:
