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Installing DynamoDB local

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Installing DynamoDB local

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- [Narrator] When you're first developing your application it doesn't make a lot of sense to pay for usage on your tables. That's why, like most databases, you can install DynamoDB locally to keep your AWS bills low until you're ready to deploy to a dev or staging environment. Let's look at how to install DynamoDB locally now. Pull up the following URL in your browser and you'll see that there are downloads here for different regions. I'm going to select the US West and I'll select the .tar.gz zipped version, which I've downloaded to my desktop. From here I'll go ahead and open up my consult window and I will make a folder in my home directory called DynamoDB and I will run the following command tar xvfz from my desktop or wherever you downloaded that file to, to minus C Dynamo. There, let's make a script now to start up our database. DynamoDB runs inside a jar, which means I'll need to have java installed. I'm using version 1.8.0 and you can use any comparable version. I'm going to…

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