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AWS DynamoDB#

AWS DynamoDB is a key-value and document database provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services.

Credentials

You can find authentication information for this node here.

Basic operations#

  • Item
  • Create a new record, or update the current one if it already exists (upsert/put)
  • Delete an item
  • Get an item
  • Get all items

Example usage#

This workflow allows you to insert an item into your DynamoDB database. This example usage workflow would use the following two nodes. - Start - Function - AWS DynamoDB

The final workflow should look like the following image.

A workflow with the AWS DynamoDB node

1. Start node#

The start node exists by default when you create a new workflow.

2. Function node#

The function node will return the item to insert, properly formatted for our table structure id: number.

  1. Enter the following snippet: 
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    return [
  {
    json: {
      id: {
        'N': '1'
      }
    }
  }
]

3. AWS DynamoDB node#

  1. First enter credentials for the AWS DynamoDB node. You can find out how to do that here.
  2. The Item Resource is selected by default.
  3. Select the Create or Update Operation.
  4. Enter the Table Name where you are inserting data.
  5. In Data to Send select Define Below for Each Column.
  6. Click on Execute Node to run the workflow.