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DynamoDB tables - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
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DynamoDB tables
- [Instructor] In the last video, I talked about at DynamoDB tables. These are great NoSQL database tables that could be used as a data source for an AppSync GraphQL API and that's what I did in the last video. I created my app sync GraphQL API and defined the table and used that as the data source for this GraphQL API. I want to take a couple minutes and just look at DynamoDB, that way I could just define the table and then generate the API using that table. So back in DynamoDB, at the AWS console, I'm going to click on create table. There's a couple of buttons that say create table. This one's orange, he's really asking for some attention. So I'm going to create a table through that button. The table name is going to be to do table. Now, typically I would just name it to do, I like to name my tables after the item that they represent. And that's partially because when an API gets generated through Amplify, it's going to create…
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