Serverless Programming Cookbook

Reading items

We can read items using get-item, query, or scan:

1. Use the aws dynamodb get-item CLI command, passing all key fields:

aws dynamodb get-item \    --table-name my_table \    --key '{"id":{"S":"002"},"datetime":{"N":"1536898295"}}' \    --return-consumed-capacity TOTAL \    --region us-east-1    --profile admin

This command will return a single item, along with metadata describing the result. The result part returned is shown in the following screenshot:

The metadata part is shown in the following screenshot:

I had added the return-consumed-capacity ...