Going through getting started guides for dynamodb and python development. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GettingStarted.Python.html

• Prerequisites
  • Install Java
  • Install Python
  • Install unzip
  • Install dynamodb locally
• Getting Started
  • Follow tutorial on Amazon docs

Check if you already have java installed by running

java -version

If you see "command not found" run the below commands to install java

sudo apt update
sudo apt install default-jre

Verify Java is installed by running

java -version

You should see the below output if Java installed correctly

openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04, mixed mode, sharing)

sudo apt update && upgrade

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip ipython3

sudo apt-get install unzip

boto3 doesn't have type annotations by default so we will use the boto3 stubs package to get them

pip3 install boto3
pip3 install boto3-stubs
pip3 install 'boto3-stubs[essential]'

If you still see a modulenotfound error on vscode from pylance, restart vscode

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" --output awscliv2.zip
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install
rm -rf awscliv2.zip
rm -rf aws

Now configure aws to use fake credentials for your local dynamodb, enter the following values for each prompt

aws configure --profile myprofile

AWS Access Key ID [None]: "fakeMyKeyId"
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: "fakeSecretAccessKey"
Default region name [None]: x
Default output format [None]:

Navigate to a directory you want to store a local version of dynamodb

mkdir dynamodb-local
cd dynamodb-local

Download and extract the java executable for dynamodb

curl https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-local/dynamodb_local_latest.tar.gz --output dynamodb-local-tar.tar.gz
tar -xf dynamodb-local-tar.tar.gz

Start dynamodb, use -port to specify another port if the default port (8000) is already taken by another program

java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb

Open a new terminal session and run

aws dynamodb list-tables --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000 --profile myprofile

You should see the output below if everything setup correctly, try restarting your computer and trying the steps again if you don't see this output

press q on your keyboard to exit and get back to the shell after you ran the previous command

{
    "TableNames": []
}
(END)

Head over to the Amazon docs to continue through the tutorial, you've set up the dynamodb locally and setting up a connection to web services will be covered at the end of that tutorial