Category: Programing Language

This week, talks from AWS re:Invent 2013 started to become available through YouTube and SlideShare. If you were at re:Invent this year, you may have seen Trevor and I give a talk on the new AWS SDK for Ruby V2. If you missed it, or if you just want to check it out again, the […]

Ever thought about generating metrics that measure your application’s performance on accessing AWS, and then having those metrics uploaded to Amazon CloudWatch for visualization or monitoring purposes ? How about generating performance metrics of your JVM’s when used against AWS ? Wouldn’t it be nice to capture and visualize metrics related to the runtime environment […]

In a previous blog post, I introduced Minitest from the perspective of RSpec. Some Minitest users prefer to avoid the specification style of Minitest::Spec. Instead they use Minitest::Test. It’s closer to the metal and uses a more vanilla Ruby syntax. Here is an example spec file using Minitest::Spec: require ‘spec_helper’ describe MyClass do describe ‘#some_method’ […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.4.11 of the AWS SDK for PHP. This release updates the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS clients to use the latest API versions. Changelog Added support for copying DB snapshots from one AWS region to another to the Amazon RDS client Added support for pagination of […]

In version 2.0.2.3 of the SDK we added an enhancement to the SDK to make it easier to subscribe an Amazon SQS queue to an Amazon SNS topic. You have always been able to subscribe queues to topics using the Subscribe method on the SNS client, but after you subscribed to the topic with your […]

One of my favorite aspects of working with Ruby is how natural it is to write tests for. The Ruby community does an excellent job of encouraging authors to produce well tested code. There is a plethora of well supported tools to choose from. I like to joke that new Ruby developers write Micro test […]

A recent post on the AWS PHP Development forum inspired me to write a quick post about how to use credentials vended by AWS Security Token Service with the AWS SDK for PHP. What is AWS Security Token Service? AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) is a web service that enables you to request temporary, […]

We’re back in Seattle after spending last week in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent 2013! It was great to meet so many Java developers building applications on AWS. We heard lots of excellent feature requests for all the different tools and projects our team works on, and we’re excited to get started building them! The […]

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides a simple method to control the lifecycle of your S3 objects. In this post, we examine how you can easily set up rules to delete or archive old data in S3 using the AWS SDK for .NET. Lifecycle Rules Lifecycle configurations are associated with a bucket. A lifecycle configuration […]

AWS re:Invent was an amazing event this year. We are glad that we could connect with the PHP developers that were there. If you weren’t there, be sure to watch the Day 1 Keynote with AWS Sr. Vice President Andy Jassy and Day 2 Keynote with Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels. Well known AWS customers like […]