#Important note

We have eschewed using Dynamo running in the cloud for Day 1.

The ability to run locally without worrying about breaking the bank on accident is a godsend for learning developers.

We also found the included tutorial http://localhost:8000/shell/ to be quite good at teaching the fundamentals.

The impact this has on using the CLI is that when the book instructs you to run aws dynamodb <someCommand>, you'll also need to append --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000 --region us-east-1 to each command.

The final resultshould look like:

aws dynamodb list-tables --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000 --region us-east-1
{
    "TableNames": []
}

docker-compose up

From there you'll connect to it with the aws cli as the book does, always appending the --endpoint-url and --region flags.

Because of the author's focus on connecting Amazon services and the pervasiveness of them in modern software development, for Day 2 and 3 we recommend following along in your AWS account.

That's it! You're in! Happy Hacking!