AWS Developer Tools Blog

Category: .NET

Cross-Account IAM Roles in Windows PowerShell

As a company’s adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) grows, most customers adopt a multi-account strategy. Some customers choose to create an account for each application, while others create an account for each business unit or environment (development, testing, production). Whatever the strategy, there is often a use case that requires access to multiple accounts […]

Alternative Formatting for Metrics Data in .NET SDK Logs

The AWS SDK for .NET has had response logging and performance metrics logging since before version 2.0. We introduced SDK logging and metrics output in an earlier post. You might want to skim that as a refresher. The metrics data is included in the logs in a human-readable format, but SDK users who aggregate, analyze, […]

Querying the Public IP Address Ranges for AWS

A post on the AWS Official Blog last November noted that the authoritative public IP address ranges used by AWS could now be obtained from a JSON-format file. The same information can now be accessed easily from AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell with a new cmdlet, Get-AWSPublicIpAddressRange, without the need to parse JSON. This cmdlet […]

Caching Amazon Cognito Identity IDs

Amazon Cognito is a service that you can use to get AWS credentials to your mobile and desktop applications without embedding them in your code. A few months ago, we added a credentials provider for Cognito. In version 2.3.14 of the AWS SDK for .NET, we updated the credentials provider to support caching the identity […]

New AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Wizard

Today, we released version 1.8 of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. For this release, we revamped our wizard to deploy your ASP.NET Applications. Our goal was to make deployment easier as well as take advantage of some of the new features AWS Elastic Beanstalk has added. What happened to the AWS CloudFormation deployments? Unlike […]

Amazon EC2 ImageUtilities and Get-EC2ImageByName Updates

Versions 2.3.14 of the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, released today (December 18, 2014), contain updates to the utilities and the Get-EC2ImageByName cmdlet used to query common Microsoft Windows 64-bit Amazon Machine Images using version-independent names. Briefly, we renamed some of the keys used to identify Microsoft Windows Server 2008 […]

Preview release of AWS Resource APIs for .NET

We have released a preview of AWS Resource APIs for .NET, which is a brand new high-level API. The latest version of the preview ships with the resource APIs for the following AWS services, support for other services will be added in the near future. Amazon Glacier Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Amazon Simple Queue […]

DynamoDB JSON Support

The latest Amazon DynamoDB update added support for JSON data, making it easy to store JSON documents in a DynamoDB table while preserving their complex and possibly nested shape. Now, the AWS SDK for .NET has added native JSON support, so you can use raw JSON data when working with DynamoDB. This is especially helpful […]

AWS re:Invent 2014 Recap

Another AWS re:Invent has come and gone. Steve and I were lucky enough to be there and meet many developers using AWS in such interesting ways. We also gave a talk showing off some the new features the team added to the SDK this year. The talk has been made available online. In our talk, […]