The CreateTable operation adds a new table to your account. In an AWS account, table names must be unique within each region. That is, you can have two tables with same name if you create the tables in different regions.
CreateTable is an asynchronous operation. Upon receiving a CreateTable request, Amazon DynamoDB immediately returns a response with a TableStatus of CREATING
. After the table is created, Amazon DynamoDB sets the TableStatus to ACTIVE
. You can perform read and write operations only on an ACTIVE
table.
If you want to create multiple tables with local secondary indexes on them, you must create them sequentially. Only one table with local secondary indexes can be in the CREATING
state at any given time.
You can use the DescribeTable API to check the table status.