title: Apostrophe CMS running with Dynamo DB
body: <p>We would like to run Apostrophe in AWS, however our policy is to use Dynamo DB for our database needs.
  Is this possible? </p>
  
  <p>On <a href="https://docs.apostrophecms.org/apostrophe/tutorials/intermediate/accessing-the-database-directly#making-your-own-database-connections" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.apostrophecms.org/apostrophe/tutorials/intermediate/accessing-the-database-directly#making-your-own-database-connections</a></p>
  
  <p>It says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Maybe you don't even want to use MongoDB at all. That's okay. Nobody's
    stopping you from making your own database connection for your
    project-specific code.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I assume that means it is possible.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried extending the apostrophe-db module to call </p>
  
  <pre><code>self.apos.db = new AWS.DynamoDB();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the site won't initialise.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone who has attempted this please give some examples of how to do it if it is possible.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>