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If you missed the Infrastructure is Code with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) Tech Talk last week, you can now watch it online on the AWS Online Tech Talks channel. Elad and I had a ton of fun building this little URL shortener sample app to demo the AWS CDK for Python. If you aren’t a Python developer, don’t worry! […]

AWS is happy to announce that the aws-rails-provisioner gem for Ruby is now in developer preview and available for you to try! What is aws-rails-provisioner? The new aws-rails-provisioner gem is a tool that helps you define and deploy your containerized Ruby on Rails applications on AWS. It currently only supports AWS Fargate. aws-rails-provisioner is a […]

This blog was authored by Viacheslav Inozemtsev, Data Engineer at Zalando, an active user of the serverless technologies in AWS, and an early adopter of the AWS Cloud Development Kit.   Infrastructure is extremely important for any system, but it usually doesn’t carry business logic. It’s also hard to manage and track. Scripts and templates […]

In March 2019, AWS announced support for .NET Standard 2.0 in SDK for .NET. They also announced plans to remove the Portable Class Library (PCL) assemblies from NuGet packages in favor of the .NET Standard 2.0 binaries. If you’re starting a new project targeting a platform supported by .NET Standard 2.0, especially recent versions of Unity, Xamarin and […]

This post introduces you to the new Python bindings for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). What’s the AWS CDK, you might ask? Good question! You are probably familiar with the concept of infrastructure as code (IaC). When you think of IaC, you might think of things like AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation allows you […]

This blog was authored by Liz Parody, Developer Relations Manager at NodeSource.   Node.js 6.x (“Boron”), which has been maintained as a long-term stable (LTS) release line since fall of 2016, is reaching its scheduled end-of-life (EOL) on April 30, 2019. After the maintenance period ends, Node.js 6 will no longer be included in Node.js […]

AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. X-Ray not only enables developers and DevOps engineers to get to the […]

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 […]

A new release of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio has been published to Visual Studio marketplace. This new release adds support for Visual Studio 2019. Visual Studio 2019 is currently in preview, however, Microsoft has announced the general availability (GA) release date to be April 2, 2019. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio provides […]

Update October 15, 2020: Version 4.2.0 of Amazon.Lambda.Tools has been released that adds Lambda layers support for .NET Core 3.1. This was initially disabled due to an issue in the .NET Core SDK. A fix was released in version 3.1.400 of the .NET Core SDK and is the required minimum to be installed to create […]