Data doesn't go into DYNAMO DB

[tavleennagi]

the entered data is not going into dynamo db and it pops the message well this is embarrassing everytime

[dalygbarron]

me 2

[alejandro-2awesome]

For anyone that will cross with this problem in the future. It took me for a while to workaround the problem.

Long story short, AWS changed how Elastic Beanstalk works a little bit.

In order to make the example work you need to do 2 things.

Step 1
In your Elastic Beanstalk environment settings:

• Add to Environment properties (including the values for your account):
• ACCESS_KEY_ID
• SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Step 2
then in the app.js before the following code:

var sns = new AWS.SNS(); var ddb = new AWS.DynamoDB();

Add this:

    AWS.config.update({
        region: process.env.AWS_REGION",
        accessKeyId: process.env.ACCESS_KEY_ID,
        secretAccessKey: process.env.SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    });

With those 2 changes (and perhaps adding some IAM role if needed) the example app should work.

Note: Perhaps this is not the most security compliance way to solve this problem, but is a first step towards making the example work :)