Category: AWS SDK for .NET

In August 2024, we announced the first preview of our upcoming version 4 of the AWS SDK for .NET. Since then we have continued making progress and released new previews as we go. At the time of writing this post, the SDK has released preview 4. In this post, we’ll take a look at some […]

Starting with version 3.7.400, the AWS SDK for .NET added significant observability enhancements. It introduced powerful tracing and metrics capabilities with OpenTelemetry support, an industry-standard for observability. With these enhancements, developers can now gain deeper insights into their applications’ behavior, from tracking API call durations to monitoring system metrics. In this blog post, we’ll guide […]

In February 2024, AWS SDK for .NET team announced changes to the minimum .NET target versions the AWS SDK for .NET will support. The major changes announced were ending support for .NET Framework 3.5 and changing the minimum .NET Framework to 4.6.2. In June we revised the blog post with the .NET Framework minimum set […]

Update June 20th, 2024: Initially this announcement specified the minimum .NET Framework version would change to 4.6.2. During the development of this work we determined that 4.7.2 would be a better minimum target framework for the long term direction of the SDK. With 4.7.2 the SDK has access to more crypto algorithms that we will […]

The AWS SDK for .NET includes the Document and Object Persistence programming models, which provide an idiomatic .NET experience for working with Amazon DynamoDB. Beginning in AWSSDK.DynamoDBv2 3.7.203, there are new ways to initialize the document and object persistence models which can improve your application’s performance by reducing thread contention and throttling issues during the first call to DynamoDB. […]

This blog post is intended to notify customers using the AWS SDK for Java v2.x, AWS SDK for .NET v3.x, or AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x, of a change in parameter type for the S3 GetObjectAttributes API. This change may require a type definition change in your code. On September 20, 2023, we released a […]

We are happy to announce the general availability of a new deployment experience in both the Visual Studio and the .NET CLI. This follows the preview announcement from last year. The new deployment experience focuses on the type of application you want to deploy instead of individual AWS services by providing intelligent compute recommendations. You […]

Tips & Tricks: Delaying AWS Service configuration when using .NET Dependency Injection The AWSSDK.Extensions.NETCore.Setup package provides extensions for enabling AWS Service Client creation to work with native .NET Dependency Injection. Bindings for one or more services can be registered via the included AddAWSService<TService> method and a shared configuration can be added and customized via the […]

In this blog we show you how to build a Microsoft.NET Web API application with Amazon Aurora Database using AWS App Runner. AWS App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs, and helps us start with our source code or a container image. Container workload management tasks, such […]

NOTE: This post assumes the reader has some familiarity with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). To get started with the AWS CDK, please visit the AWS CDK Developer Guide and follow the AWS CDK for .NET workshop. The AWS CDK is an an open-source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) framework that allows developers to model and provision […]