AWS SDK for Go Update Needed for Go 1.8

The AWS SDK for Go  is updated for Go 1.8. This update fixes an issue in which some API operations failed with a connection reset by peer error or service error. This failure prevented API operation requests from being made. If you’re using Go 1.8 with a version of the SDK that’s earlier than v1.6.3, you need to update the SDK to at least v1.6.3 to take advantage of this fix.

GitHub issue #984 discovered that the bug was caused by the way the SDK constructed its HTTP request body. The SDK relied on undocumented functionality of Go 1.7 and earlier versions. In that functionality, the Go http.Request automatically determined whether to send the request’s body, based on whether the body was empty.

Go addressed the issue for most use cases in 1.8rc2, but some APIs such as the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) CopyObject API were still affected.

The SDK’s fix for this issue takes advantage of Go 1.8’s new type, http.NoBody. The SDK uses this value to ensure the HTTP request doesn’t contain a body when none is expected. Another option for a fix was to set Request.Body to nil, but this would break backward compatibility because the Request.Body value is accessible.

See #991, #984, and golang/go#18257 for more information.

Thank you, to all who discovered, reported, and helped us resolve this issue.