Author: Ben Powell

The AWS SDK for Go 2.0 has released generated marshalers for the restjson and restxml protocols. Generated marshalers will help with the performance and customer issues the SDK had been receiving. To better understand what was causing the performance hit, we used Go’s benchmark tooling to help us determine the main bottleneck—reflection. The reflection package […]

The v1.9.44 release of the AWS SDK for Go adds support for batched operations in the s3manager package. This enables you to easily upload, download, and delete Amazon S3 objects. The feature uses the iterator, also known as scanner pattern, to enable users to extend the functionality of batching. This blog post shows how to […]

Overview AWS SDK for Go released the encryption client last year, and some of our customers have asked us how to use it. We’re very excited to show you some examples in this blog post. Before we get into the examples, let’s look at what client-side encryption is and why you might want to use […]

Requests are the core of the Go SDK. They handle the network request to a specific service. When you call a service method in the AWS SDK for Go, the SDK creates a request object that contains the input parameters and request lifecycle handlers. The logic involved in each step of a request’s lifecycle, such […]