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# Type of request: This is a ...

[x] bug report
[ ] feature request

# Detailed description
VTL request containing an expression evaluated to String Concatenation does not work.

### Query
```
mutation createShop {
            createShop(shop: { shopName: "Apple" } ) {
              shopName
            }
          }
```

### VTL Template (**Works when deploy to Appsync on AWS services**)
```
{
  "version" : "2018-05-29",
  "operation" : "PutItem",
  "key" : {
    "PK": $util.dynamodb.toDynamoDBJson("SHOP#${ctx.args.shop.shopName}"),
    "SK": $util.dynamodb.toDynamoDBJson("PROFILE#$ctx.args.shop.shopName")
  },
  "attributeValues" : { "shopName": { "S": "Apple" }}
}
```

## Expected behavior
### Item stored in dynamodb 
```
{
            "PK": {
                "S": "SHOP#Apple"
            },
            "SK": {
                "S": "PROFILE#Apple"
            },
            "shopName": {
                "S": "Apple"
            }
        }
```


## Actual behavior
### Item stored in dynamodb 
```
{
            "PK": {
                "S": "SHOP#${ctx.args.shop.shopName}"
            },
            "SK": {
                "S": "PROFILE#$ctx.args.shop.shopName"
            },
            "shopName": {
                "S": "Apple"
            }
        }
```

# Steps to reproduce

## Command used to start LocalStack
docker-compose
````
version: '2.1'

services:
  localstack:
    container_name: "${LOCALSTACK_DOCKER_NAME-localstack_main}"
    image: localstack/localstack
    ports:
      - "4566-4700:4566-4700"
      - "443:443"
      - "${PORT_WEB_UI-8080}:${PORT_WEB_UI-8080}"
    environment:
      - SERVICES=serverless,cloudformation,dynamodb,iam,s3,appsync,edge
      - DEBUG=1
      - DATA_DIR=${DATA_DIR- }
      - PORT_WEB_UI=${PORT_WEB_UI- }
      - LAMBDA_EXECUTOR=${LAMBDA_EXECUTOR- }
      - KINESIS_ERROR_PROBABILITY=${KINESIS_ERROR_PROBABILITY- }
      - DOCKER_HOST=unix:///var/run/docker.sock
      - HOST_TMP_FOLDER=${TMPDIR}
      - LOCALSTACK_API_KEY=${LOCALSTACK_API_KEY}
    volumes:
      - "${TMPDIR:-/tmp/localstack}:/tmp/localstack"
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
````

## Client code (AWS SDK code snippet, or sequence of "awslocal" commands)

...

return str(s).replace("'", r"\'")
def render_velocity_template(template, context, variables={}, as_json=False):
    import airspeed
    
    template = re.sub(r'(^|\n)#\s+set(.*)', r'\1#set\2', template, re.MULTILINE)
    t = airspeed.Template(template)
    var_map = {
        'input': VelocityInput(context),
        'util': VelocityUtil()
    }
    var_map.update(variables or {})
    replaced = t.merge(var_map)
    if as_json:
        replaced = json.loads(replaced)
    return replaced
def check_valid_region(headers):
    """ Check whether a valid region is provided, and if not then raise an Exception. """
    auth_header = headers.get('Authorization')
    if not auth_header:
        raise Exception('Unable to find "Authorization" header in request')
    replaced = re.sub(r'.*Credential=([^,]+),.*', r'\1', auth_header)
    if auth_header == replaced:
        raise Exception('Unable to find "Credential" section in "Authorization" header')
    
    
    parts = replaced.split('/')
    region = parts[2]
    if region not in config.VALID_REGIONS:
        raise Exception('Invalid region specified in "Authorization" header: "%s"' % region)
def set_default_region_in_headers(headers):