How do I promisify the AWS JavaScript SDK?

I want to use the aws-sdk in JavaScript using promises.

Instead of the default callback style:

dynamodb.getItem(params, function(err, data) {
  if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
  else     console.log(data);           // successful response
});

I instead want to use a promise style:

dynamoDb.putItemAsync(params).then(function(data) {
  console.log(data);           // successful response
}).catch(function(error) {
  console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
});

The 2.3.0 release of the AWS JavaScript SDK added support for promises: http://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/8589740860839559

I believe calls can now be appended with .promise() to promisify the given method.

You can see it start being introduced in 2.6.12 https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2612

You can see an example of it's use in AWS' blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-8-10-runtime-now-available-in-aws-lambda/

let AWS = require('aws-sdk');
let lambda = new AWS.Lambda();

exports.handler = async (event) => {
    return await lambda.getAccountSettings().promise() ;
};

You can use a promise library that does promisification, e.g. Bluebird.

Here is an example of how to promisify DynamoDB.

var Promise = require("bluebird");

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var dynamoDbConfig = {
  accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  secretAccessKey: process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
  region: process.env.AWS_REGION
};
var dynamoDb = new AWS.DynamoDB(dynamoDbConfig);
Promise.promisifyAll(Object.getPrototypeOf(dynamoDb));

Not you can add Async to any method to get the promisified version.