I am not going to go into the holy war of the JSON vs YAML discussion. That is something that should be left to folks that have time and willingness to discuss this, just like discussions of OS X vs Windows vs Linux, or VMware vs Xen, or iOS vs Android, or …the list could continue way past this blog. But this blog is not to discuss either/or. It is to show you a way to convert from one to another to ease the pain of dealing with one or the other side. Let’s take a simple JSON template for DynamoDB table creation in AWS.