diff --git a/code/ddns-lambda.py b/code/ddns-lambda.py
index fd07ac7..93eacbb 100755
--- a/code/ddns-lambda.py
+++ b/code/ddns-lambda.py
@@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ def lambda_handler(
         instance = get_item_from_dynamodb_table(dynamodb_client, DDBNAME, instance_id)
         LOGGER.info("instance attributes: %s", str(instance) + lineno())
         try:
-            LOGGER.info(f"instance_data type {type(instance)} {lineno()}")
-            instance_data = json.loads(instance)
+            ##            LOGGER.info(f"instance_data type {type(instance)} {lineno()}")
+            ##            instance_data = json.loads(instance)
             LOGGER.info(f"getting _DnsEntries {lineno()}")
-            dns_data_raw = instance_data.get('_DnsEntries', [])
+            dns_data_raw = instance.get('_DnsEntries', [])
             LOGGER.info(
                 f"got _DnsEntries type {type(dns_data_raw)} value {dns_data_raw} {lineno()}")
             dns_data = [dns_data_tuple(**item) for item in dns_data_raw]
diff --git a/code/ddns-lambda.zip b/code/ddns-lambda.zip
index 70f707c..d458aaf 100644
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