只需确保使用由aws提供的dynamo连接器开源。默认情况下，它在emr afaik上可用。
使用dynamodbstoragehandler类创建表的语法：

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hive_tablename (
    hive_column1_name column1_datatype,
    hive_column2_name column2_datatype
)
STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.dynamodb.DynamoDBStorageHandler'
TBLPROPERTIES (
    "dynamodb.table.name" = "dynamodb_tablename",
    "dynamodb.column.mapping" =
        "hive_column1_name:dynamodb_attribute1_name,hive_column2_name:dynamodb_attribute2_name"
);

对于任何spark工作，您需要具备以下条件：

$ spark-shell --jars /usr/share/aws/emr/ddb/lib/emr-ddb-hadoop.jar
...
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb.DynamoDBItemWritable
import org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb.read.DynamoDBInputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb.write.DynamoDBOutputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable

var jobConf = new JobConf(sc.hadoopConfiguration)
jobConf.set("dynamodb.input.tableName", "myDynamoDBTable")

jobConf.set("mapred.output.format.class", "org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb.write.DynamoDBOutputFormat")
jobConf.set("mapred.input.format.class", "org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb.read.DynamoDBInputFormat")

var orders = sc.hadoopRDD(jobConf, classOf[DynamoDBInputFormat], classOf[Text], classOf[DynamoDBItemWritable])

orders.count()

参考文献：https://github.com/awslabs/emr-dynamodb-connector