Adding data to a table
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Updated at April 24, 2026
To add two records to the series table:
AWS CLI
Run these commands, replacing https://your-database-endpoint with the previously prepared Document API endpoint of your database:
Warning
To work with the AWS CLI on Windows, we recommend using the WSL.
endpoint="https://your-database-endpoint"
aws dynamodb put-item \
--table-name series \
--item '{"series_id": {"N": "1"}, "title": {"S": "IT Crowd"}, "series_info": {"S": "The IT Crowd is a British sitcom produced by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris ODowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry."}, "release_date": {"S": "2006-02-03"}}' \
--endpoint $endpoint
and
endpoint="https://your-database-endpoint"
aws dynamodb put-item \
--table-name series \
--item '{"series_id": {"N": "2"}, "title": {"S": "Silicon Valley"}, "series_info": {"S": "Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky."}, "release_date": {"S": "2014-04-06"}}' \
--endpoint $endpoint