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.NET 5 on AWS

As long time .NET developers, many of us here at AWS share in the excitement for the GA release of .NET 5. When benchmark results were announced at .NET Conf this summer, these results validated the focus on increasing performance over its predecessor — .NET Core 3.1. Including a 30% socket performance improvement on Linux, […]

Connection UX improvements in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains

The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains is a plugin for JetBrains’s IDEs that makes it easier to write applications for AWS. Features include locally debugging Lambdas, browsing S3 buckets, viewing CloudWatch logs, and more. Today we’d like to share a number of improvements to the toolkit which make connecting to AWS more seamless: Better defaults – in […]

Introducing Paginators in AWS SDK for .NET v3.5

We are happy to introduce Paginators in the latest release of AWS SDK for .NET v3.5! Many AWS operations return paginated results when the response object is too large to return in a single response. Paginators can help you navigate through paginated responses from services. Basic Usage Typically, a service will return a truncated response when […]

Updates to the Amazon S3 Encryption Client

The Amazon S3 Encryption Client is a convenient and efficient tool for performing client-side encryption of objects in S3. One of the unique propositions of client-side encryption is that if you are willing and able to do all of your own key management then you, and only you, will have access to the unencrypted or […]

Environment Variables with .NET Core and Elastic Beanstalk

Along with Elastic Beanstalk’s recent release of adding Linux support for .NET Core, the Beanstalk team has also been working to standardize the support for environment variables across both the Linux and Windows .NET Core Beanstalk platforms. This means using the latest platform version for either the Linux or Windows, you can set environment variables […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds .NET Core on Linux platform

Today the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service extends its .NET support with the creation of the new .NET Core on Linux platform. This new platform version makes it easy to get ASP.NET Core applications deployed to AWS quickly for either a dev stack or a full production environment including enhanced health, patching, autoscaling, and rolling deployments. […]

End-of-support for Windows PowerShell 2

Following the end of support of Windows Server 2008 R2, in March 2020 we announced that we require Windows PowerShell 3.0+ and .NET Framework 4.5+ as prerequisite for all new releases of AWSPowerShell. As of June 1st, 2020 we no longer release new AWSPowerShell versions compatible with Windows PowerShell 2. The existing versions of AWSPowerShell […]

Centralize Amazon CloudWatch Logs using AWS CDK

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. One of the most common use cases that customers try to implement is to centralize various types of logs in their AWS infrastructure so that these logs can be utilized for security, monitoring or analytics purposes. Centralizing AWS services logs […]

Orchestrating an application process with AWS Batch using AWS CDK

In many real work applications, you can use custom Docker images with AWS Batch and AWS Cloud Development Kit(CDK) to execute complex jobs efficiently. AWS CDK is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages, including TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C# and Java. For the solution […]