Programmatically check table exist in AWS Dynamo DB from Lambda function

public boolean isTableExist(String tableName) { try { TableDescription tableDescription = dynamoDB.getTable(tableName).describe(); System.out.println('Table description: ' + tableDescription.getTableStatus()); return true; } catch (com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.model.ResourceNotFoundException rnfe) { System.out.println("Table does not exist"); } return false; }