Author: Norm Johanson

Following the end of support of Windows Server 2008 R2, in March 2020 we announced that we require Windows PowerShell 3.0+ and .NET Framework 4.5+ as prerequisite for all new releases of AWSPowerShell. As of June 1st, 2020 we no longer release new AWSPowerShell versions compatible with Windows PowerShell 2. The existing versions of AWSPowerShell […]

This week is my 10 year anniversary at AWS and what a ride it has been. Somewhere along the road they gave me the keys to publish blog posts so I thought I would take over for a bit and look back on my journey at AWS. My journey also maps very closely with .NET's […]

Microsoft announced the end of support for .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 platforms on June 27th, 2019. Given that the .NET Standard 1.3 target of the AWS SDK for .NET is only used for .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 platforms, we will be removing the .NET Standard 1.3 target in AWS SDK for .NET, and […]

One Month Update to .NET Core 3.1 Lambda About one month ago we released the .NET Core 3.1 Lambda runtime. Since then we have seen a lot excitement for creating new .NET Core 3.1 Lambda functions or porting existing Lambda functions to .NET Core 3.1. We have also received some great feedback and as a […]

At AWS re:Invent 2019, AWS CodeBuild announced a new test reporting feature which can help make diagnosing test failures in CodeBuild much easier. You can read more about it here. I wanted to use this feature for .NET and after a little research I was able to quickly add support for .NET tests to my […]

Recently we released our .NET Core 3.1 AWS Lambda runtime. With our previous .NET Core 2.1 Lambda runtime we released the AWSLambdaPSCore PowerShell module that made it easy to deploy PowerShell scripts to Lambda using PowerShell 6 and the .NET Core 2.1 Lambda Runtime. Now we have released version 2.0.0 of the PowerShell module AWSLambdaPSCore. […]

.NET Core 3.0 was recently released which brings in a host of new features and improvements. This release of .NET Core is called a “Current” release by the .NET team which means it will have a short lifecycle of support after the next release of .NET Core. The Lambda team’s policy is to support Long […]

A new release of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio has been published to Visual Studio marketplace. This new release adds support for Visual Studio 2019. Visual Studio 2019 is currently in preview, however, Microsoft has announced the general availability (GA) release date to be April 2, 2019. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio provides […]

Update October 15, 2020: Version 4.2.0 of Amazon.Lambda.Tools has been released that adds Lambda layers support for .NET Core 3.1. This was initially disabled due to an issue in the .NET Core SDK. A fix was released in version 3.1.400 of the .NET Core SDK and is the required minimum to be installed to create […]

Today, the AWS Elastic Beanstalk team released version 2 of the Windows Server platform for Elastic Beanstalk. This brings a host of new features to help Windows developers roll out new deployments and to monitor their applications. In this blog post, we’ll look at just a couple of the new features. For a full list […]