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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 '%s:%s' % (self.region, self.prefix)
PREDEFINED_ENVIRONMENTS = {
    ENV_DEV: Environment(region=REGION_LOCAL, prefix=ENV_DEV)
}
def get_environment(env=None, region_name=None):
    """
    Return an Environment object based on the input arguments.
    Parameter `env` can be either of:
        * None (or empty), in which case the rules below are applied to (env = os.environ['ENV'] or ENV_DEV)
        * an Environment object (then this object is returned)
        * a string '<region>:<name>', which corresponds to Environment(region='<region>', prefix='<prefix>')
        * the predefined string 'dev' (ENV_DEV), which implies Environment(region='local', prefix='dev')
        * a string '<name>', which implies Environment(region=DEFAULT_REGION, prefix='<name>')
    Additionally, parameter `region_name` can be used to override DEFAULT_REGION.
    """
    if not env:
        if 'ENV' in os.environ:
            env = os.environ['ENV']
        else:
            env = ENV_DEV
    elif not is_string(env) and not isinstance(env, Environment):
        raise Exception('Invalid environment: %s' % env)
    if is_string(env):
        env = Environment.from_string(env)
    if region_name:
        env.region = region_name
    if not env.region:
        raise Exception('Invalid region in environment: "%s"' % env)
    return env
def is_local_env(env):