Best practices for DynamoDB

[nitrocode]

After reading about the DynamoDBMapper, I figured my DynamoDB implementation was lacking.

I'm really interested to see best practices of implementing a DynamoDB class with Put and Get item functions. Is the DynamoDBMapper the best way to do it or is it better to implement without all the annotations? What are the advantages / disadvantages?

Thank you!

[Deleted user]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've added it to the team's list for future consideration.