[20 Days of DynamoDB] Day 7 - DeleteItem API

Posted: 16/Jan/2024

The DynamoDB DeleteItem API does what it says - delete an item. But it can also:

• Return the content of the old item (at no additional cost)


• Return the consumed Write Capacity Units (WCU)


• Return the item attributes for an operation that failed a condition check (again, no additional cost)


• Retrieve statistics about item collections, if any, that were affected during the operation

Here is an example:

    resp, err := client.DeleteItem(context.Background …

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