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We’re pleased to announce that the AWS SDK for Java 2.x is now generally available and supported for production use. Version 2.x is a major rewrite of the 1.11.x code base. Built with support for Java 8+, 2.x adds several frequently requested features, like nonblocking I/O, improved start-up performance and automatic iteration over paginated responses. […]

Summary: This blog post describes best practices for using DateTime values in distributed .NET programming. It also highlights some of the recent, related changes in the AWS SDK for .NET and the AWSPowerShell modules. Today, it’s increasingly common to write code that interacts with external systems, and it’s very likely that these systems won’t share the […]

With the recent AWS Lambda support for PowerShell, it’s now easy to make web APIs with Amazon API Gateway that execute your PowerShell scripts. In the previous blog post, we showed how to deploy PowerShell-based Lambda functions with AWS CloudFormation. We are going to reuse that technique in this post because using AWS CloudFormation is […]

If your application is using .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.5 you should update to version 3.3.22.0 or later of AWSSDK.Core. This ensures you are using the latest HTTPS protocols and can communicate with newer AWS services. Background A growing trend across the internet is for HTTPS services to only accept connections using newer encryption protocols […]

We recently announced AWS Lambda support for PowerShell. In our initial blog post, we showed how you can use the new AWSLambdaPSCore module to deploy PowerShell scripts to Lambda. In this blog post, we talk about how you can integrate PowerShell-based Lambda functions with AWS CloudFormation. It’s common to want to deploy a collection of […]

Today we are excited to release support for PowerShell Core 6.0 with AWS Lambda. This new feature enables you to execute PowerShell scripts or functions in response to any Lambda event, such as an Amazon S3 event or Amazon CloudWatch scheduled event. Setting up a development environment Before we get started developing PowerShell based Lambda […]

One of the exciting new features in .NET Core 2.1 are Global Tools. Global Tools provide the ability to distribute command line tools via a NuGet package and install them with the dotnet command line. Before Global Tools were released, .NET Core had the concept of project tools, which were tied to a specific project […]

Today we released version 1.1.0 of the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This version includes new tasks, updates to existing tasks, and a change to how AWS credentials and region are handled by the tasks to make using them easier and more convenient. In this post, we’ll take a brief look […]

We’re excited to announce support for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) #select_object_content API with event streams in the AWS SDK for Ruby. Amazon S3 Select enables you to retrieve only a subset of data from an object by using simple SQL expressions. Amazon S3 streams the responses as a series of events, instead […]

F# is a functional language that runs on .NET and enables you to use packages written in other .NET languages, like the AWS SDK for .NET that’s written in C#. Today we have released a new version of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2017 with support for writing AWS Lambda functions in F#. These […]