AWS documentation for Dynamodb is apt for someone who is setting up the local instance. I was able to able to CLI based commands to insert, delete and list the DB after the installation.

But, I wasn't able to load tables in NoSQL workbench.

I tried multiple ways to make it work. After hours of trial and errors, following are the notes which worked for me as of Sept 2022

1. Download and Install Amazon Dynamodb docker instance
2. I stored my docker-compose.yml under /local_dynamodb folder, to keep it neat.
3. Fire up docker instance (Make sure docker daemon is running) and all done at Dynamodb end.

local_dynamodb % docker-compose up
Creating dynamodb-local ... done
Attaching to dynamodb-local
dynamodb-local    | Initializing DynamoDB Local with the following configuration:
dynamodb-local    | Port:    8000
dynamodb-local    | InMemory:    false
dynamodb-local    | DbPath:    null
dynamodb-local    | SharedDb:    true
dynamodb-local    | shouldDelayTransientStatuses:    false
dynamodb-local    | CorsParams:    *
dynamodb-local    |

Let's switch to NoSQL workbench configuration

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