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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 […]

Taming client-side key rotation with the Amazon S3 encryption client

As mentioned in an earlier blog, encrypting data using the Amazon S3 encryption client is one way you can provide an additional layer of protection for sensitive information you store in Amazon S3. Under the hood, the Amazon S3 encryption client randomly generates a one-time data encryption key per S3 object, encrypts the key using […]

Using Amazon RDS with Ruby on Rails and AWS OpsWorks

Earlier in this blog series, we showed you how to deploy a Ruby on Rails application to Amazon Web Services using AWS OpsWorks. In that example, we used an OpsWorks-managed MySQL database run on an Amazon EC2 instance. One common piece of feedback on that post was a desire to see how you can set […]

AWS re:Invent 2014 Recap

I’m almost done getting readjusted to regular life after AWS re:Invent! It was really awesome to meet so many developers building cool stuff on AWS, and to talk about how we can make your lives easier with great SDKs and tools. If you didn’t make it to re:Invent this year, or if you opted for a […]

AWS re:Invent 2014 Recap

AWS re:Invent 2014 concluded on Friday, November 14, 2014; here is a summary of an action-packed, fun-filled week! New features and services There were four new services and features announced at the Day 1 Keynote, two of which are available to all customers effective November 12, 2014. These include: Amazon RDS for Aurora (a service […]

AWS re:Invent 2014 Ruby Recap

Last week, we had a great time meeting with AWS customers using Ruby at AWS re:Invent! We appreciate the feedback we received, and the discussions that we had with you. AWS SDK for Ruby Presentation Notes At AWS re:Invent this year I took many of you on a tour of version 2 of the AWS […]

Authentication with Amazon Cognito in the Browser

Amazon Cognito is a great new service that enables a much easier workflow for authenticating with your AWS resources in the browser. Although web identity federation still works directly with identity providers, using the new AWS.CognitoIdentityCredentials gives you the ability to provide access to customers through any identity provider using the same simple workflow and […]