Release: AWS SDK for Android 1.4.4

The SDK now supports specifying consistent reads when performing a batch read operation in DynamoDB. The low-level client as well as the DynamoDBMapper utility both support specifying this new parameter.

The SDK now automatically checks DynamoDB API requests for CRC32 checksum errors and retries requests when necessary.

The SDK now support the latest API of EC2, which enables customers to determine the state of an EC2 Spot Instance request.

For more information, please read the service release notes.

Long polling allows for Amazon SQS to wait for a specified amount of time for a message to be available instead of returning an empty response if one is not available.

For more information about long polling, go to Amazon SQS Long Polling in the Amazon Simple Queue ServiceDeveloper Guide

Signature version 4 provides improved security and performance.

For more information about signature version 4, go to Query Request Authentication in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

Amazon S3 - Archiving Objects to Amazon Glacier

Amazon S3 now provides a storage option that enables you to utilize Amazon Glacier's low-cost storage service for data archival. To archive objects, you define archival rules identifying objects and a timeline when you want Amazon S3 to archive these objects to Amazon Glacier. You can easily set the rules on a bucket using the Amazon S3 management console or programmatically using the SDK.

For more information, see Object Lifecycle Management.

Errors when calling the doesBucketExist() method, for some buckets, have been resolved.

The short numeric data type is now supported in DynamoDBMapper.

Two missing fields have been added to this request object.