Category: Compute

At re:Invent 2018 we unveiled the AWS Toolkit for three new IDEs – IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and Visual Studio Code. Powered by the AWS SAM CLI, these toolkits enable local invocation and step-through debugging of your AWS Lambda functions directly in your IDE. We’re pleased to announce that a Preview of the AWS Toolkit is […]

Real world Microsoft workloads have a lot of Web APIs that are native to Microsoft methods for serving front-end applications (like ASP.NET, ASP.NET Razor/MVC, ReactJS or Angular Application). Even though there are customers who want to try serverless with AWS Lambda, they often have to continue to maintain many existing .NET web APIs. These applications […]

.NET Core 3.0 was recently released which brings in a host of new features and improvements. This release of .NET Core is called a “Current” release by the .NET team which means it will have a short lifecycle of support after the next release of .NET Core. The Lambda team’s policy is to support Long […]

AWS is happy to announce that the aws-rails-provisioner gem for Ruby is now in developer preview and available for you to try! What is aws-rails-provisioner? The new aws-rails-provisioner gem is a tool that helps you define and deploy your containerized Ruby on Rails applications on AWS. It currently only supports AWS Fargate. aws-rails-provisioner is a […]

Visual Studio Code has become an enormously popular tool for serverless developers, partly due to the intuitive user interface. It’s also because of the rich ecosystem of extensions that can customize and automate so much of the development experience. We are excited to announce that the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code extension is now […]

This blog was authored by Liz Parody, Developer Relations Manager at NodeSource.   Node.js 6.x (“Boron”), which has been maintained as a long-term stable (LTS) release line since fall of 2016, is reaching its scheduled end-of-life (EOL) on April 30, 2019. After the maintenance period ends, Node.js 6 will no longer be included in Node.js […]

A new release of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio has been published to Visual Studio marketplace. This new release adds support for Visual Studio 2019. Visual Studio 2019 is currently in preview, however, Microsoft has announced the general availability (GA) release date to be April 2, 2019. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio provides […]

Last year at re:Invent we told you that we were working on the AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ. Since then, the toolkit has been in active development on GitHub. I’m happy to share that the AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ is now generally available! The toolkit provides an integrated experience for developing serverless applications. For example, you […]

Update October 15, 2020: Version 4.2.0 of Amazon.Lambda.Tools has been released that adds Lambda layers support for .NET Core 3.1. This was initially disabled due to an issue in the .NET Core SDK. A fix was released in version 3.1.400 of the .NET Core SDK and is the required minimum to be installed to create […]

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 […]