Question

I ran the following code, and it stated is executed correctly. It is the result of this tutorial that I shortened and rehooked into my project. After it ran the AWS Console said the table had zero items. I come back tomorrow and it contains some times. Looking around I found that the console is updated every six hours or so on average. Is there a different way to more immediately check that my data was successfully inserted?

Answer 1

Update

The AWS team has just announced the option to Explore Your DynamoDB Tables Using the AWS Management Console as well:

You can now view and modify the contents of your DynamoDB tables from
within the AWS Management Console. With the addition of this new
feature, you can learn by doing — trying out a number of DynamoDB
features without even writing any code. You can create a table, add
some items, and see them in the table, all through a very clean and
simple user interface.

This is obviously a very convenient addition to the rich client options referenced in my initial answer below, please check out the post itself for a short illustrated tour to help you get started.

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Initial Answer

The AWS Toolkits for Eclipse and Visual Studio both allow you to create tables, insert and edit data, initiate table scans, and more, straight from your local development environment (see the introductory post AWS Toolkits for Eclipse and Visual Studio Now Support DynamoDB).

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio seems to provide a particularly fast and thorough UI for all things AWS, but both toolkits can effectively replace the AWS Management Console for every day usage, if you happen to run one of these IDEs anyway.

Accordingly, I’ve just added a table and some items, which show up immediately and can likewise be scanned at your fingertips as expected (works with both tookits in a similar fashion).

So depending on your use case this might be all you need.