aiodynamodb

Async DynamoDB client + lightweight model layer built on aioboto3 and Pydantic v2.

Features

• Fully async API built on aioboto3
• Pydantic v2 models for validation and typed data access
• Table mapping via @table(...) decorator with GSI/LSI support
• Persistent connection pooling via context manager
• Query and scan with typed, paginated results
• Conditional writes/deletes, transactions, and batch operations

AI Disclaimer

Some code and content in this repository was created with the assistance of AI tools. All code is reviewed thoroughly.

Installation

pip install aiodynamodb

Quickstart

import asyncio
from aiodynamodb import DynamoDB, DynamoModel, HashKey, table


@table("users")
class User(DynamoModel):
    user_id: HashKey[str]
    name: str
    email: str | None = None


async def main() -> None:
    async with DynamoDB() as db:
        await db.create_table(User)
        await db.put(User(user_id="u1", name="Alice", email="alice@example.com"))
        user = await db.get(User, hash_key="u1")
        print(user)


asyncio.run(main())

Documentation

Full documentation is available at aiodynamodb.com, including:

• Getting Started
• Guides — CRUD, queries, scans, transactions, batch ops, custom types, and more
• API Reference

Contributing

Clone the repo and install dev dependencies:

make install-dev

Make your changes, then:

make lint         # lint and format
make typecheck    # type check
make test         # run tests