Delete a dynamodb table from local container using AWS Workbench

Question

I'm trying to use DynamoDB locally and am using the container https://hub.docker.com/r/amazon/dynamodb-local combined with AWS Workbench (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/workbench.html).

I have successfully created a table on my local container but now I wish to delete it. I'm assuming AWS Workbench has this functionality(?) and I'm just being dumb... can anybody point me at the button I need to press?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

You now can use PartiQL with NoSQL Workbench to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB

Posted On: Dec 21, 2020

However, you cannot still delete the table from dynamodb.

Answer 2

In case anybody else is looking, at time of writing aws workbench does not support the functionality to delete a table. Got my answer straight from the DynamoDb team.

Answer 3

Came across this question while trying to update data from NoSql Workbenck into my local DDB table.

My issue was now knowing how to re-commit/update the data after my first commit to my local docker ddb server as I was getting this error

Error
Could not commit to DynamoDB as table creation failed: ResourceInUseException: Cannot create preexisting table

What worked for me was to:

1. stop my local instance (ctrl + c)
2. restart my local ddb server (docker run -p 8000:8000 amazon/dynamodb-local)
3. and commiting my changes to my local DDB again from NoSql Workbench

Just in case anyone else is trying to solve the same problem and if you haven't tried this yet.