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DynamoDB is an excellent key/value store that is available over HTTPS. However, to access it using shell scripts you would need to use the AWS CLI, which technically is different from the AWS-SDK so I'm not sure if this would work for you.
AWS::CloudFormation::Init
resource to pass key/value data in.