Author: Steve Roberts

Today’s post is from AWS Solution Architect Aravind Kodandaramaiah. We recently announced the new AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. In this post, we show you how you can use these tools to deploy your .NET web applications from Team Services to Amazon EC2 instances by using AWS CodeDeploy. We don’t cover setting up the tools in […]

Today’s post is from AWS Solution Architect and Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Data Center Management, Trevor Sullivan. The AWS Tools for PowerShell now offer a new command that makes it easier to authenticate to the Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is a service that enables customers to upload and store […]

Today Amazon Web Services announced the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The tools are free to use and are distributed in the Visual Studio Marketplace. You can use these tasks in build and release pipelines hosted within VSTS and Team Foundation Server to interact with AWS services. For example, you can […]

Trevor Sullivan, a Systems Development Engineer here at Amazon, recently contributed some new AWS CloudFormation helper cmdlets and improved formatting for types he works with on a daily basis. These updates were released in version 3.3.119.0 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell modules (AWSPowerShell and AWSPowerShell.NetCore), in addition to new support in Amazon CloudWatch metrics […]

We’re pleased to announce that the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is now generally available (GA) for Visual Studio 2017. You can install it from the Visual Studio Gallery. The GA version is 1.12.1.0. Unlike with previous versions of the toolkit, we are using the Visual Studio Gallery to distribute new versions that target Visual Studio […]

Since we launched the first AWS module for PowerShell five years ago, we’ve been hugely encouraged by the feedback from the user community, from first-time PowerShell users to PowerShell MVPs. In that time, we’ve acted immediately on some feedback, and put more complex changes into our backlog for future consideration. One common request from experienced […]

We recently announced support for new features in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio that make working with AWS CodeCommit repositories easy and convenient from within Visual Studio Team Explorer. In this post, we take a look at getting started with setting up credentials, and then how to create and clone repositories from within Team […]

Today Microsoft announced PowerShell support on Windows, Linux and OS X platforms (read the blog announcement here). We’re pleased to also announce support for PowerShell on these new platforms with a new module, the AWS Tools for PowerShell Core Edition or “AWSPowerShell.NetCore” to give it its module name. Just like PowerShell itself, this new module […]

Version 3.1.93.0 of the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell now includes support for tab completion of parameters that map to enumeration types in service APIs. Let’s look at how these types are implemented in the underlying AWS SDK for .NET and then see how this new support helps you at the Windows PowerShell command line […]

Version 3.1.73.0 of the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell and AWS SDK for .NET (AWSSDK.Core version 3.1.6.0),  released today, contain enhancements to the way credentials and region data can be supplied to your SDK applications and PowerShell scripts, including the ability to use SAML federated credentials in your SDK applications. We’ve also refactored support for […]