Author: John Vellozzi

We’ve received many requests to include more versions of .NET Core in AWS Lambda. Customers want the flexibility to write Lambda functions in LTS, current, and preview versions of .NET Core. Until now, you could use only LTS versions. The new Amazon.Lambda.RuntimeSupport library changes that. Today we’ve released the Amazon.Lambda.RuntimeSupport library that enables you to […]

The antiforgery framework is a critical part of ASP.NET Core. It ensures web forms and login pages haven’t been tampered with by storing crypto data with the form and then validating the form with a key created by the Data Protection framework. An ASP.NET Core Data Protection Provider is the building block that provides encryption […]

Today we released support for the new .NET Core 2.1.0 runtime in AWS Lambda. You can now take advantage of this version’s more performant HTTP client. This is particularly important when integrating with other AWS services from your AWS Lambda function. You can also start using highly anticipated new language features such as Span<T> and […]

You can now use an AWS KMS key as your master key when you use the AmazonS3EncryptionClient class for client-side encryption. The main advantage of using an AWS KMS key as your master key is that you don’t need to store and manage your own master keys. It’s done by AWS. A second advantage of […]

In an upcoming release of the AWS SDK for .NET, the FallbackCredentialsFactory class and the FallbackRegionFactory class will allow the use of the AWS_PROFILE environment variable. The SDK currently looks for a profile named “default” when retrieving credentials and region settings. After this change is released, users will be able to set the AWS_PROFILE environment […]

The AWS SDK for .NET, AWS Tools for PowerShell, and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio now support the use of the AWS CLI credentials file. Some of the AWS SDKs have supported shared use of the AWS CLI credentials file for some time, and we’re happy to add the SDK for .NET to that […]