Author: Matthew Miller

In alignment with our announcement in January and the SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, the AWS SDK for Java 1.x will no longer receive updates for new or existing services, and will not be updated to support new regions. Customers can use the AWS SDK for Java 2.x along-side the 1.x SDK to access new […]

We have released the AWS SDK for Java 2.17, which removes the SDK’s external dependency on the popular third-party JSON library, Jackson. This means that AWS SDK for Java 2.x no longer requires an external copy of Jackson-databind, Jackson-core, or Jackson-dataformat-cbor in order to function. This release does not change any of the public AWS […]

We are raising the minor version of AWS SDK for Java from 1.11 to 1.12 in order to upgrade the SDK’s dependency on the popular third-party JSON library, Jackson. This release does not change any of the AWS SDK APIs. Even though there are some backwards-incompatible changes in Jackson APIs, it should be a straight-forward […]

The AWS SDK for Java currently maintains two major versions: 1.11.x and 2.x. Customers on Java 8 or newer may use either 2.x or 1.11.x, and customers on Java 6 or newer may use 1.11.x. Free updates to the Java 6 virtual machine (JVM) were stopped by Oracle on April 2013. Users that don’t pay […]

We’re pleased to announce that the AWS SDK for Java 2.x is now generally available and supported for production use. Version 2.x is a major rewrite of the 1.11.x code base. Built with support for Java 8+, 2.x adds several frequently requested features, like nonblocking I/O, improved start-up performance and automatic iteration over paginated responses. […]

This is the first in a series of blog posts that outline changes coming in the AWS SDK for Java 2.0. Read our developer preview announcement for more information about why we’re so excited for this new version of the SDK. We want your help to shape the future of the AWS SDK for Java […]