Category: PowerShell

As previously announced, version 4 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell entered maintenance mode on March 1, 2026. In accordance with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 has now reached end-of-support as of June 1, 2026.  Starting June 1, 2026, there are no plans for further updates or releases for V4, including security fixes. Previously published releases should continue […]

The new multipart download support in AWS Tools for PowerShell v5 improves the performance of downloading large objects from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) compared to the single-stream downloads. The Read-S3Object and Copy-S3Object cmdlets now deliver faster download speeds through an opt-in switch parameter -UseMultipartDownload for multipart downloads, reducing the need for complex code to manage […]

In alignment with our previous announcement in August 2025 and SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, version 4 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell (AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x) will enter maintenance mode on March 1, 2026 and reach end-of-support on June 1, 2026.

This blog was co-authored by Afroz Mohammed and Jonathan Nunn, Software Developers on the AWS PowerShell team. We’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Tools for PowerShell version 5, a major update that brings new features and improvements in security, along with a few breaking changes. New Features You can now cancel […]

Recently we released our .NET Core 3.1 AWS Lambda runtime. With our previous .NET Core 2.1 Lambda runtime we released the AWSLambdaPSCore PowerShell module that made it easy to deploy PowerShell scripts to Lambda using PowerShell 6 and the .NET Core 2.1 Lambda Runtime. Now we have released version 2.0.0 of the PowerShell module AWSLambdaPSCore. […]

Dear AWS PowerShell Customers, We are excited to announce the GA release of version 4 of our PowerShell modules! AWS Tools for PowerShell is available in three different variants: AWS.Tools is the new modular variant that allows for faster import times and a smaller footprint. AWS.Tools is compatible with both PowerShell Core 6+ and Windows PowerShell 5.1 when .NET Framework 4.7.2 is installed. Starting with […]

In August, the AWS .NET Team released the first preview of AWS.Tools: the modular version of AWS Tools for PowerShell. As we are close to declaring AWS.Tools ready for production use, we can now announce that the generally available version of AWS.Tools will be part of a major version update of AWS Tools for PowerShell […]

In Jeff Barr’s recent blog post, he announced support for querying AWS Region and service availability programmatically by using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. The examples in the blog post all used the AWS CLI, but the post noted that you can also use the AWS Tools for PowerShell. In this post I’ll show you […]

In 2016, we released AWS Tools for PowerShell Core targeting PowerShell Core 6.0, which provided cross-platform support for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows. We published this module separately from AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell because it was not compatible with earlier versions of PowerShell. Last year, Microsoft released PowerShell Standard: a new library […]

The final update of the AWS Tools for PowerShell in 2018 added support for Amazon S3 Glacier. Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. The update to the AWS PowerShell modules added cmdlets to support both control and data plane APIs for the […]