I don't think you need to do that at the moment, this is just a developer preview. Just wait and see how things evolve. At the moment https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum still seems like a much much better SDK for AWS ;)

yeah actually i opted to stay on my current npm package.

looks like this requires specifying datatypes for each field in dynamo whereas my current one just lets me blindly dump objects.