On second spin up of the NextJS sample app I get a failure: "dev-nextjs-app-my-stack failed: dev-nextjs-app-Counter already exists" It seems the pull down didn't work right.

No, it means there's already a table with name

counter

Change the name of your table to something else and start the server again. @Justin Philpott

Yes it was left there from the first spin up, meaning the remove command didn't work completely

You need to manually delete the Dynamo DB table.

cool

Stateful resources like tables have a remove policy or retain, by default. You can change the defaultRetainPolicy in your dev environments and your retainPolicy (per resource) in other environments.

yes this makes sense, thanks