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AWS DynamoDB with Flask on AWS EC2 Instance:

Steps to be followed for the Installation:

Step 1:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3
pip install flask
Step 2: create a new file
vi app.py

from flask import Flask, render_template, request, redirect, url_for


import boto3
from boto3.dynamodb.conditions import Key
import uuid
import datetime

from dotenv import load_dotenv


load_dotenv() # This loads the variables from .env

app = Flask(__name__)

# AWS DynamoDB Setup


dynamodb = boto3.resource('dynamodb')
table = dynamodb.Table('BlogPosts')

@app.route('/')
def index():
# Fetch all blog posts
response = table.scan()
return render_template('index.html', posts=response['Items'])

@app.route('/post/<id>')
def post(id):
# Fetch a single post
response = table.query(
KeyConditionExpression=Key('post_id').eq(id)
)
return render_template('post.html', post=response['Items'][0])

@app.route('/create', methods=['GET', 'POST'])


def create():
if request.method == 'POST':
# Generate a unique ID for the new post
post_id = str(uuid.uuid4())

# Get form data


title = request.form['title']
content = request.form['content']
author = request.form.get('author', 'Anonymous') # Default to 'Anonymous' if no author
provided
tags = request.form['tags']
date = datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()

# Insert new post into DynamoDB


table.put_item(
Item={
'post_id': post_id,
'title': title,
'content': content,
'author': author,
'date': date,
'status': 'published',
'tags': tags
}
)

return redirect(url_for('index'))

return render_template('create.html')

# Add more routes for update and delete

if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)

vi .env.example

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your-access-key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your-secret-access-key
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=your-region

Step 3:
python -m venv venv

Step 4:
pip install -r requirement.txt
Step 5:
flask run

App will be running on http://localhost:5000.

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