This project depends heavily on DynamoDB. Please setup DynamoDB locally using the instructions given at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DynamoDBLocal.DownloadingAndRunning.html Once you finish step 3 of the guide, DynamoDb should be up and running. To open the dynamodb console, navigate to http://localhost:8000/shell in your browser. This opens a javascript console for you to run db scripts in. Run the scripts provided in the db-scripts folder to setup the required tables.