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Reduce Lambda cold start times: migrate to AWS SDK for JavaScript v3

The AWS SDK for JavaScript (JS SDK) v3 is a rewrite of v2 with a modular architecture and frequently requested features, such as a first-class TypeScript support and a new middleware stack. As our customers migrate their applications from JS SDK v2 to v3, they have been requesting reliable benchmarks to assess the SDKs performance […]

Introducing S3 cross-region support in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

AWS SDK for Java team is excited to introduce the latest addition to the AWS SDK for Java 2.x: the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Cross-Region Client feature. With this new feature, you can effortlessly access Amazon S3 buckets in different AWS Regions by using a single client configured for cross-region access. Join us […]

Introducing Smithy for Python

Introducing Smithy for Python

AWS is excited to announce a preview of Smithy client generation for Python. This tooling will enable developers to generate clients in type-hinted Python in the same model-driven manner that AWS has used to develop its services for more than a decade. Writing and maintaining hand-written clients for a web service is both time-consuming and […]

New: Improved flexibility when configuring endpoint URLs with the AWS SDKs and tools

The AWS SDKs and Tools team is excited to announce improvements for configuration of the endpoint URL used for API service requests through the shared SDK configuration file and environment variables with the AWS SDKs and Tools. Previously, you could specify the endpoint URL used for AWS requests by setting the –endpoint-url command line parameter […]

Introducing The Smithy CLI

Introducing the Smithy CLI

The Smithy team is excited to announce the official release of the Smithy CLI. Smithy is an open-source Interface Definition Language (IDL) for web services created by AWS. AWS uses Smithy to model services, generate server scaffolding and rich clients in multiple languages, and generate the AWS SDKs. Smithy enables large-scale collaboration on APIs through its […]

Introducing a new client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x for retrieving EC2 Instance Metadata

You can now use AWS SDK for Java 2.x to easily retrieve instance metadata for an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance! We are pleased to announce the general availability of new Java SDK EC2 Instance Metadata Clients in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x (version 2.19.29 or later). You can use this new […]

Run an Active-Passive, multi region API using Aurora RDS Global Cluster

Increasingly enterprises and customers run and manage applications at a global scale that need to be resilient and highly available. In order to deliver the best possible experience to their end consumers, these applications need to safeguard against risks of service disruptions and downtime. Risks due to service downtime, due to natural disasters, hardware failures, […]

Announcing availability of the AWS CRT HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. With release version 2.20.0 of the SDK, the AWS CRT HTTP Client can now be used in production environments. The AWS CRT HTTP Client is an asynchronous, non-blocking HTTP client that […]

Introducing CRT-based S3 Client and the S3 Transfer Manager in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

We are excited to announce the general availability of two new features in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x that enable accelerated object transfer with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): An AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based S3 SDK client, and the S3 Transfer Manager. The CRT-based S3 client allows you to transfer objects to and […]