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Load data into DynamoDB using the AWS console

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Load data into DynamoDB using the AWS console

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- [Instructor] Obviously, it's great that you have tables, but the point of all this, remember, is to actually get data into tables. So I'm looking at services.json here, which has a number of items, and each one is keyed to name. Now if you go to the AWS Console, this is probably the easiest way to get data quickly into Dynamo. So I'm going to go to Dynamo by typing dy, and it'll usually come up, and I'm going to find our table, and we're looking at services so we can find the services table. And then, we can click on items. Every item in the table is a single entry. This is somewhat equivalent to a row if you've worked with relational databases. Now if you want to go much deeper into DynamoDB, there is a course that I offer on that that will take you through all the vagaries of this and really help you get into DynamoDB at a deeper level. But for our purposes, we really don't need that, we just need to add each one…

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