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Category: AWS SDK for Ruby

AWS SDK for Ruby: Deprecating Ruby 2.5 & 2.6 Runtime Supports and Future Compatibility

Effective June 2, 2025, AWS SDK for Ruby Version 3 will no longer support following end-of-life (EOL) Ruby runtime versions: Ruby 2.5 (EOL began on 2021-04-05) Ruby 2.6 (EOL began on 2022-04-12) To ensure your applications and services remain secure, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to Ruby 2.7 or later. Moving forward, AWS SDK […]

Updating AWS SDK defaults – AWS STS service endpoint and Retry Strategy

AWS announces important configuration updates coming July 31st, 2025, affecting AWS SDKs and CLIs default settings. Two key changes include switching the AWS Security Token Service (STS) endpoint to regional and updating the default retry strategy to standard. These updates aim to improve service availability and reliability by implementing regional endpoints to reduce cross-regional dependencies and introducing token-bucket throttling for standardized retry behavior. Organizations should test their applications before the release date and can opt-in early or temporarily opt-out of these changes. These updates align with AWS best practices for optimal service performance and security.

Announcing RBS support for AWS SDK for Ruby V3

RBS is a language to describe the structure of Ruby programs. We are happy to announce that AWS SDK for Ruby V3 now supports RBS type signatures! RBS support is released in aws-sdk-core version 3.191.0 and in every service gem (such as aws-sdk-s3) that depends on this version of core. RBS signatures are currently code […]

Announcing the end of support for Ruby runtimes 2.3 and 2.4 for the AWS SDK For Ruby

Starting November 22, 2023, AWS SDK for Ruby version 3 will no longer support these end of life (EOL) Ruby runtime versions: Ruby 2.3 – EOL began on 2019-03-31 Ruby 2.4 – EOL began on 2020-03-31 Since these versions are end-of-life, we have seen support drop within the Ruby community, including Bundler, Docker, and some […]

Announcing the end of support for Ruby runtimes 1.9, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 for the AWS SDK For Ruby

Starting September 1, 2021, AWS SDK For Ruby will no longer support these end of life (EOL) Ruby runtime versions: Ruby 1.9.3 – EOL began on 2015-02-23 Ruby 2.0.0 – EOL began on 2016-02-24 Ruby 2.1 – EOL began on 2017-03-31 Ruby 2.2 – EOL began on 2018-03-31 Since these versions have long passed end-of-life, […]

Introducing new features for the aws-sdk-rails gem

The Ruby SDK team is happy to announce that we’ve added new features and consolidated existing gems into the aws-sdk-rails gem to make developing Rails applications using AWS easier than ever. Features supported Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue adapter for ActiveJob (new) ActiveSupport::Notification instrumentation (new) DynamoDB ActiveDispatch::Session implementation (new) Include Aws::Record with Rails migration tasks and […]