Category: Programing Language

The documentation for Amazon CloudWatch contains this sample scenario for setting up alarms to monitor your estimated charges. Apart from a one-time operation to enable billing alerts for your account, the same capability can be set up and maintained using the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. Enabling Alerts The first step is to enable billing […]

Last month the Amazon DynamoDB team announced a new pair of features: Improved Query Filtering and Conditional Updates.  In this post, we’ll show how to use the new and improved conditional writes feature of DynamoDB to speed up your app. Let’s say you’re building a racing game, where two players advance in position until they […]

There are a number of ways to provide AWS credentials to your .NET applications. One approach is to embed your credentials in the appSettings sections of your App.config file. While this is easy and convenient, your AWS credentials might end up getting checked into source control or published to places that you didn’t mean. A […]

The AWS SDK for Ruby provides a few methods for getting objects out of Amazon S3. This blog post focuses on using the v2 Ruby SDK (the aws-sdk-core gem) to download objects from Amazon S3. Downloading Objects into Memory For small objects, it can be useful to get an object and have it available in […]

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. Now the Amazon S3 encryption client provides you with the ability to use authenticated encryption for your stored data via the new CryptoMode.AuthenticatedEncryption option. The Developer Preview of […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.6.2 of the AWS SDK for PHP. Added support for Amazon SQS message attributes. Fixed Amazon S3 multi-part uploads so that manually set ContentType values are not overwritten. No longer recalculating file sizes when an Amazon S3 socket timeout occurs. Added better environment variable detection. Install the […]

In this post, we’ll see how to use Identity and Access Management(IAM) roles for Amazon EC2 instances. Using IAM roles for EC2 instances, you don’t need to manage or distribute credentials that your application needs. Instead, credentials are automatically distributed to EC2 instances and picked up by the AWS SDK for .NET. Here are the […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.6.1 of the AWS SDK for PHP. This release adds support for the latest features in Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Auto Scaling; introduces support for a new INI-formatted credentials file (more information about this will be coming in a future blog post); and fixes a […]

Evan Brown is doing a great five part series on the AWS Application Management Blog on developing, deploying, and managing for scale with Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation. In each of his five blog posts, Evan breaks down a different topic and explains best practices as well as practical tips and tricks for working with applications […]

Sometimes, when sending requests using the AWS SDK for .NET, you are required to explicitly specify an endpoint URL for a service. One such scenario is when you use an older version of the SDK to send requests to a particular service and that service is introduced in a new region. To access the service […]