Author: Norm Johanson

Version 4.0 of the AWS SDK for .NET has been released for general availability (GA). V4 has been in development for a little over a year in our SDK’s public GitHub repository with 13 previews being released. This new version contains performance improvements, consistency with other AWS SDKs, and bug and usability fixes that required […]

In Part 1 of our blog posts for .NET Aspire and AWS Lambda, we showed you how .NET Aspire can be used for running and debugging .NET Lambda functions. In this part, Part 2, we’ll show you how to take advantage of the .NET Aspire programming model for best practices and for connecting dependent resources […]

In a recent post we gave some background on .NET Aspire and introduced our AWS integrations with .NET Aspire that integrate AWS into the .NET dev inner loop for building applications. The integrations included how to provision application resources with AWS CloudFormation or AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and using Amazon DynamoDB local for […]

.NET Aspire is a new way of building cloud-ready applications. In particular, it provides an orchestration for local environments in which to run, connect, and debug the components of distributed applications. Those components can be .NET projects, databases, containers, or executables. .NET Aspire is designed to have integrations with common components used in distributed applications. […]

This blog was co-authored by Afroz Mohammed and Jonathan Nunn, Software Developers on the AWS PowerShell team. In August 2024, the AWS Tools for PowerShell team announced the upcoming release of the AWS Tools for PowerShell V5. The first preview release of V5 is now available. Preview 1 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell V5 […]

In August 2024, we announced the first preview of our upcoming version 4 of the AWS SDK for .NET. Since then we have continued making progress and released new previews as we go. At the time of writing this post, the SDK has released preview 4. In this post, we’ll take a look at some […]

We are announcing support for JSON structured logging for the .NET managed runtime. This makes the .NET managed runtime compatible with the previously announced logging controls for AWS Lambda, allowing you to toggle logging format and log levels using the Lambda API. Formatting log messages as JSON documents makes it easier to search, filter, and […]

This blog was co-authored by Afroz Mohammed and Jonathan Nunn, Software Developers on the AWS PowerShell team. Today, we want to let the AWS PowerShell community know about our upcoming plans for the AWS Tools for PowerShell. The current AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 is built on the AWS SDK for .NET V3. Recently, the […]

In February 2024, AWS SDK for .NET team announced changes to the minimum .NET target versions the AWS SDK for .NET will support. The major changes announced were ending support for .NET Framework 3.5 and changing the minimum .NET Framework to 4.6.2. In June we revised the blog post with the .NET Framework minimum set […]

Update June 20th, 2024: Initially this announcement specified the minimum .NET Framework version would change to 4.6.2. During the development of this work we determined that 4.7.2 would be a better minimum target framework for the long term direction of the SDK. With 4.7.2 the SDK has access to more crypto algorithms that we will […]