AWS Developer Tools Blog
Category: Technical How-to
AWS Chalice adds support for the AWS CDK
In a previous post, we showed how you can use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and AWS Chalice to develop both infrastructure and application logic as code. To help combine the two frameworks together, a cdk-chalice construct library was used that handled the low-level communication details. In collaboration with the original developer of […]
Exploring .NET 5 with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
This week, .NET 5.0 was officially released. Read about how you can get more out of your .NET investments on AWS and some of the services and tools that we have worked on to support .NET 5 on AWS. In this post we show how you can use the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio to […]
.NET 5 on AWS
As long time .NET developers, many of us here at AWS share in the excitement for the GA release of .NET 5. When benchmark results were announced at .NET Conf this summer, these results validated the focus on increasing performance over its predecessor — .NET Core 3.1. Including a 30% socket performance improvement on Linux, […]
Introducing Middleware Stack in Modular AWS SDK for JavaScript
One of the major changes in v3 is introduction of the middleware stack, which customizes the SDK behavior by modifying the middleware. In this blog post we’d like to describe how you can use this feature in detail.
AWS Toolkit in JetBrains Rider
The AWS Toolkits for different IDEs are built to support a vast array of use cases and developer preferences so there’s almost always a tool for the IDE you use; e.g. JetBrains Rider, IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains PyCharm, Microsoft’s VS Code, or Visual Studio. Developers tend to be attached to their preferred IDE and thus AWS […]
Introducing launch configurations support for SAM debugging in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code implements a new SAM debugging experience based on VS Code launch configurations. This new experience replaces the old Run Locally | Debug Locally experience. To try the SAM debugging experience for VS Code, install the AWS Toolkit from the VS Code Marketplace. The new experience embraces VS Code’s […]
Run Blazor-based .NET Web applications on AWS Serverless
Blazor WebAssembly is a new client-side web development framework that lets developers to use C# to create application front end. Blazor can run client-side C# code directly in the browser, using WebAssembly. Blazor WebAssembly runs on .NET Core and it is an open source and cross-platform web framework for building single-page application using .NET and […]
CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. The AWS CDK consists of three major components: The core framework for modeling reusable infrastructure components A CLI for deploying CDK applications The AWS Construct Library, a set […]
Using the New Client-Side Metrics feature in the AWS SDK for Java v2
We are pleased to announce the preview release of the metrics module for AWS SDK for Java v2! The metrics module enables you to collect and publish key performance metrics recorded automatically by the SDK as you use it. These metrics will help you detect and diagnose issues in your applications like increased API call […]




