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Category: Java

Preview Release of the Migration Tool for the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

The AWS SDK for Java 1.x entered maintenance mode on July 31, 2024. We recommend that you migrate to the AWS SDK for Java 2.x to access new features, enhanced performance, and continued support from AWS. We understand our customers’ time is valuable, and we’ve heard customers want simpler ways to migrate. That’s why we […]

Introducing a new client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x for retrieving EC2 Instance Metadata

You can now use AWS SDK for Java 2.x to easily retrieve instance metadata for an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance! We are pleased to announce the general availability of new Java SDK EC2 Instance Metadata Clients in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x (version 2.19.29 or later). You can use this new […]

Announcing availability of the AWS CRT HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. With release version 2.20.0 of the SDK, the AWS CRT HTTP Client can now be used in production environments. The AWS CRT HTTP Client is an asynchronous, non-blocking HTTP client that […]

Introducing CRT-based S3 Client and the S3 Transfer Manager in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

We are excited to announce the general availability of two new features in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x that enable accelerated object transfer with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): An AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based S3 SDK client, and the S3 Transfer Manager. The CRT-based S3 client allows you to transfer objects to and […]

Amazon CloudFront Signed URLs and Cookies are now supported in AWS SDK for Java 2.x

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudFront signed URLs and signed cookies in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. You can now securely serve private content through CloudFront, requiring that your users access your content by using special CloudFront signed URLs or signed cookies. To configure your CloudFront distribution to use […]

Tuning Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform for Graviton2 using Amazon Corretto

Tuning Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform for Graviton2 using Amazon Corretto By Guest Blogger Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io Background Honeycomb is a leading observability platform used by high-performance engineering teams to quickly visualize, analyze, and improve cloud application quality and performance. We utilize the OpenTelemetry standard to ingest data from our clients, including […]

Using atomic counters in the Enhanced DynamoDB AWS SDK for Java 2.x client

We are pleased to announce that users of the enhanced client for Amazon DynamoDB in AWS SDK for Java 2.x can now enable atomic counters, as well as add custom DynamoDB update expressions through the enhanced client extension framework. Customers have told us that they want improved performance and consistency when updating table records. The […]