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In this chapter, we'll cover the prerequisites needed to get started with [Amazon DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Introduction.html). You'll create DynamoDB tables and use a AWS Cloud9 envrironment to query these tables.

The deployment architecture that you will be building in this lab will look like the below.

![Final Deployment Architecture](/images/hands-on-labs/setup/dynamodb_lab_architecture.png)