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Category: AWS SDK for Go

Upgrading your AWS SDK for Go from V1 to V2 with Amazon Q Developer

Software development is far more than just writing code. In reality, a developer spends a large amount of time maintaining existing applications and fixing bugs. For example, migrating a Go application from the older AWS SDK for Go v1 to the newer v2 can be a significant undertaking, but it’s a crucial step to future-proof […]

V2 AWS SDK for Go adds Context to API operations

As of January 19th, 2021, the AWS SDK for Go, version 2 (v2) is generally available. The v2 AWS SDK for Go developer preview made a breaking change in the release of v0.8.0. The v0.8.0 release added a new parameter, context.Context, to the SDK’s Send and Paginate Next methods. Context was added as a required […]

Introducing support for Amazon S3 Select in the AWS SDK for Go

We’re excited to announce support for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) SelectObjectContent API with EventStream in the AWS SDK for Go. Using Amazon S3 Select, you can query for a subset of data from an S3 object by using simple SQL expressions. Amazon S3 streams the responses as a series of events, instead […]

AWS SDK for Go 2.0 – Generated Marshalers

The AWS SDK for Go 2.0 has released generated marshalers for the restjson and restxml protocols. Generated marshalers will help with the performance and customer issues the SDK had been receiving. To better understand what was causing the performance hit, we used Go’s benchmark tooling to help us determine the main bottleneck—reflection. The reflection package […]