Category: .NET

What is client-side encryption, and when would you want to use it? Version 2 of AWS SDK for .NET provides an easy-to-use Amazon S3 encryption client that allows you to secure your sensitive data before you send it to Amazon S3. Using the AmazonS3EncryptionClient class, the SDK automatically encrypts data on the client when uploading […]

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) release of AWS SDK for .NET version 2! This is the next major release of the SDK, which adds support for Windows Store, Windows Phone, and .NET Framework 4.5 platforms. You can download it here. Improvements One of the most exciting new features of version 2 […]

Sometimes developers want more flexibility in logging for their IIS environments. For example, in the IIS log files on instances in a load-balanced AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment, the client IP for requests always appears to be the load balancer. Elastic Load Balancing adds an X-Forwarded-For header to each request that contains the actual client IP […]

Amazon S3 allows you to enable versioning for a bucket. You can enable or disable versioning with the SDK by calling the PutBucketVersioning method. Note, all code samples were written for our new version 2 of the SDK. Users of version 1 of the SDK will notice some slight name changes. s3Client.PutBucketVersioning(new PutBucketVersioningRequest { BucketName […]

In this post, we talk about the three methods for providing AWS access keys to your .NET applications and look at a few best practices. We look at the following questions while discussing the different options for managing access keys. Security: How do you securely store credentials and supply them to your application? Ease of […]

When you launch a Windows instance in EC2, a password will be generated for the Windows administrator user. You can retrieve this administrator’s password by using the AWS SDK for .NET. In order to be able get the administrator password, you need to launch the EC2 instance with a key pair. To create a key […]

Jason Fulghum recently posted a blog entry about using Glacier with the AWS SDK for Java that I thought would be interesting for .NET developers. Here is Jason’s post with the code replaced with the C# equivalent. Do you or your company have important data that you need to archive? Have you explored Amazon Glacier […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fast NoSQL database service offered by AWS. DynamoDB can be invoked from .NET applications by using the AWS SDK for .NET. The SDK provides three different models for communicating with DynamoDB. This blog post is the first of a series that describes the various APIs, their respective tradeoffs, best practices, and […]

Today, we updated our version 2 preview of the AWS SDK for .NET. You can download version 2.0.0.6 of the SDK here. This preview contains the following updates. The SDK now requires the region to be explicitly specified through the client constructor or by using the AWSRegion setting in the application’s app or web config […]

Elastic IP addresses are great for keeping a consistent public IP address. They can also be transferred to other EC2 instances, which is useful if you need to replace an instance but don’t want your public IP address to change. The Amazon EC2 User Guide has information on IP addresses for EC2 instances that can […]