title: AWS DynamoDb local - asks for region
body: <p>I am working through the examples and I simply can't listen the tables like in the given cli example.</p>
  
  <p>My cli parameters </p>
  
  <pre><code>java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -inMemory
  
  aws dynamodb list-tables --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then it always asks me for a region and points me to "aws configure". When I entered nothing in the credentials and local as region I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? I just want to play around locally to get more familiar with the cli interface before I use the cloud itself. Bugs me a but that I cant get it work.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any hints!</p>