Author: Steve Roberts

AWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications. Customers use X-Ray to monitor application traces, including the performance of calls to other downstream components or services, in either cloud-hosted applications or from their own machines during development. Until now, setting up this trace capability for .NET applications required that customers […]

In Jeff Barr’s recent blog post, he announced support for querying AWS Region and service availability programmatically by using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. The examples in the blog post all used the AWS CLI, but the post noted that you can also use the AWS Tools for PowerShell. In this post I’ll show you […]

The final update of the AWS Tools for PowerShell in 2018 added support for Amazon S3 Glacier. Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. The update to the AWS PowerShell modules added cmdlets to support both control and data plane APIs for the […]

In the recent version 1.1 update of the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we added some enhancements to the AWS .NET Core Lambda Deployment task. These enhancements are based on user feedback requesting help with CI/CD scenarios, where users wanted their builds to package their AWS Lambda functions or serverless applications, […]

Today we released version 1.1.0 of the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This version includes new tasks, updates to existing tasks, and a change to how AWS credentials and region are handled by the tasks to make using them easier and more convenient. In this post, we’ll take a brief look […]

In this guest post by AWS Partner Solution Architect Sriwantha Attanayake, we take a look at how you can set up remote debugging for ASP.NET applications deployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. We love to run IIS websites on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. With Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud […]

Announced in a Microsoft blog post yesterday, PowerShell Core 6.0 is now generally available. AWS continues to support this new cross-platform version of PowerShell with our AWS Tools for PowerShell Core module also known by its module name, AWSPowerShell.NetCore. This post recaps the modules available from AWS for PowerShell users wanting to script their AWS […]

This post was authored by Trevor Sullivan, a Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Seattle, Washington. The post was also peer-reviewed by Andy Elmhorst, Senior Solutions Architect for AWS. Overview When you’re developing, deploying, and supporting business-critical applications, timely system notifications are crucial to keeping your services up and running reliably for […]

This is a guest post from Trevor Sullivan, a Seattle-based Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this blog post, Trevor shows you how to deploy a Windows Server-based container cluster using the AWS Tools for PowerShell. Building and deploying applications on the Windows Server platform is becoming a significantly lighter-weight process. Although you […]

This is a guest post from Trevor Sullivan, a Seattle-based Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since 2004, Trevor has worked intimately with Microsoft technologies, including PowerShell since its release in 2006. In this article, Trevor takes you through the process of using the AWS Tools for PowerShell to write and export metrics data […]