Category: Java

Are you or your company using Amazon EC2 instances? Are you using Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances yet? Reserved Instances are often one of the easiest and most effective ways to save money on your Amazon EC2 bill. They can allow you to significantly reduce the price you pay for Amazon EC2 instance hours over a […]

In many applications, it’s important to make sure your code handles creating any resources that it needs in order to run. Otherwise, you’ll have to manually create those resources whenever you want to run your application with a new AWS account. For example, if you have an application that needs to store data in an […]

Today we’re excited to talk about a brand new open source project on our GitHub page for managing Apache Tomcat sessions in Amazon DynamoDB! DynamoDB’s fast and predictable performance characteristics make it a great match for handling session data. Plus, since it’s a fully-managed NoSQL database service, you avoid all the work of maintaining and […]

No matter what type of application you’re developing, it’s a safe bet that it probably needs to save or load data from a central data store, such as Amazon S3. During development, you can take advantage of the Amazon S3 management tools provided by the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, all without ever leaving your IDE. […]

Earlier this year, Amazon DynamoDB released support for local secondary indexes. At that time, the AWS SDK for Java added support for LSIs, for both the low-level(AmazonDynamoDBClient) and high-level(DynamoDBMapper) APIs in the com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2 package. Since then, I have seen a few questions on how to use the DynamoDBMapper with local secondary indexes. In this post, […]

The com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3Object class now implements the Closeable interface (AWS SDK for Java 1.4.8 onwards). This allows you to use it as a resource in a try-with-resources statement. S3Object contains an S3ObjectInputStream that lets you stream down your data over the HTTP connection from Amazon S3. Since the HTTP connection is open and waiting, it’s important […]

Today we have another guest post from a member of the Amazon DynamoDB team, Pejus Das. The Amazon DynamoDB service provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. It also has a list of common errors that can occur during request processing. You probably have a set of test suites that you run before you […]

A few of us from the SDKs and Tools teams will be down in Portland for OSCON next week. We’ll be at the AWS booth talking to customers, answering questions, and as always, looking for talented engineers, managers, and designers interested in building the future of the AWS platform. If you aren’t able to drop […]

We released version 1.5.0 of the AWS SDK for Java last night.  This release contains several exciting enhancements including: Upgrading to the latest major version of Apache HttpClient Support for the Closeable interface on Amazon S3 objects Easier construction of requests that use map datatypes Batching improvements for Amazon DynamoDB Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder’s […]

If your application uses Amazon S3 and deals with sensitive data, then you should be taking advantage of the easy ways of increasing the security of your data using the AWS SDK for Java. There are two easy options for locking down your data using Amazon S3 and the AWS SDK for Java. Which one […]