Category: Developer Tools

The Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) lets you build scalable, event-driven systems that coordinate work across many machines that can be either cloud-based or on-premises. The service handles coordination, logging, and auditing so that you don’t need to write a bunch of glue code or to maintain your own state machines. Instead, you can focus […]

Tom Rizzo provides an update on AWS developer tools for Windows, and brings word of a Developer Preview of the next version of the AWS SDK for .NET. — Jeff; Over the last few months, we have released a number of enhancements to help customers and partners build their Microsoft Windows centric workloads on AWS.  […]

Im happy to be able to tell you that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js applications. You can now build event-driven Node.js applications and then use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage them on AWS. Elastic Beanstalk automatically configures the environment and resources using sensible defaults in order to run your Node.js application. You can […]

Charlie from Modulus wrote in to tell me that their new platform is now available, and that it runs on AWS. Modulus was designed to let you build and host Node.js applications in a scalable fashion. Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment built around an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model. Web applications built on  Node.js are […]

The AWS Developer Tools Team focuses on delivering the developer tools and SDKs that are a good fit for today’s languages and programming environments. Today we are announcing support for the JavaScript language in the Node.js environment — the new AWS SDK for Node.js. Node.js gives you the power to write  server-side applications in JavaScript. […]

I’m happy to announce that we are launching three new blogs, all focused on developers and each one targeted at a particular language or platform. Here’s what we have for you: The new AWS Mobile Blog is for users of the AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. The new AWS Ruby Blog is for […]

I’m happy to announce that version 2 of the AWS SDK for PHP is now available. To take advantage of new features in PHP 5.3 and to conform to the recommendations of the PHP Framework Interop Group, we rebuilt the SDK from the ground up. We made these changes to give PHP developers a firm […]

Building mobile applications that are able to run on a variety of device types and operating systems is difficult. Building an enterprise application that connect to a variety of data sources is also tough. Combine the two, and you have a difficult challenge, and one that is very relevant in today’s world — the construction […]