AWS dynamodb - connection to my local dynamodb and create the table - php

Question

I am in need of an AWS dynamodb as the backend for my project.. I have already completed the below tasks:
established jar for dynamodb local server to start listening
downloaded PHP SDK from AWS
created an iam user from AWS console and copied the credentials.ini file into .aws folder
Executed the php script to connect my local dynamodb and create the table.
After all those tasks have been completed, localhost gives me a message stating the 'table created'. However am not able to find my table in the AWS console. What could be the problem?.
Am I doing it correctly? .. can someone please shed some light on this?
Here's my connection through PHP:
$client = new Aws\Sdk([
//'profile' => 'default',
'region' => 'us-west-2',
'version' => 'latest',
'endpoint' => 'http://localhost:8000',
'credentials' => [
'key' => '',
'secret' => '']
]);

Answer 1

Firstly, when you are using local host, the table would be created in your local machine (i.e. not in AWS). You have mentioned AWS console, I understood that as you are looking for the table on "AWS Management Console". When you use endpoint as "http://localhost:8000", the API will never interact with actual AWS.
It refers to the local dynamodb instance.
To check the table on local dynamodb instance:-
1) If you have AWS CLI installed on your system, you can check the existence of the table using below command.
aws dynamodb describe-table --table-name yourTableName --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000
2) Otherwise, go to http://localhost:8000/shell/
var docClient = new AWS.DynamoDB({
region: 'us-east-1',
endpoint: "http://localhost:8000"
});
var params = {TableName:'yourTableName'};
docClient.describeTable(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log(err, err.stack);
} else {
console.log(data);
// php.var_dump(data);
}
});
If table exists:-
It will show the definition of the table
If table doesn't exists:-
You will get the below error message.
"message":"Cannot do operations on a non-existent table"