Exercise 8.4 – Deploying an Amazon DynamoDB table

In this exercise, you will deploy a very simple DynamoDB table. Let's get started:

1. Ensure that you are logged into your AWS account as the IAM user known as Alice.
2. Next, navigate to the DynamoDB dashboard. You can search for DynamoDB from the top search box of AWS Management Console.
3. If this is the first time you have visited the DynamoDB console page, you will be presented with a splash screen.
4. Click the Create table button.
5. Provide a name for your table in the text box next to Table name; for example, Recipes.
6. In the Primary key field, enter RecipeName and ensure that the type is set to String.
7. Under Table settings, uncheck the box next to Use default settings.
8. In the Read/write capacity mode section, select the On-demand option.
9. Click the Create button at the bottom of the page. DynamoDB will create a new table for you in a few seconds, as per the following screenshot:

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