Control Plane Operations

Control plane operations let you create and manage DynamoDB tables. They also let you work with indexes, streams, and other objects that are dependent on tables.

Documentation

SDK & Tools

List tables

aws dynamodb list-tables

Create a table

Documentation

  • Table Name is unique within a region
  • Table with same name across multiple regions is allowed
  • There is a Limit on maximum number of tables per account
  • Allows creation of Secondary Indexes
  • Allows setting up of capacity/billing mode

The sample code here will create a table with the name test.

aws dynamodb create-table \
    --table-name  test \
    --attribute-definitions \
       AttributeName=PK,AttributeType=S AttributeName=SK,AttributeType=S  \
    --key-schema \
       AttributeName=PK,KeyType=HASH \
       AttributeName=SK,KeyType=RANGE \
    --provisioned-throughput \
        ReadCapacityUnits=1,WriteCapacityUnits=1

Describe tables

Documentation

aws dynamodb describe-table  --table-name  Employee --endpoint-url   http://localhost:8000

Delete table

Documentation

aws dynamodb delete-table  --table-name  test --endpoint-url   http://localhost:8000