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AWS Chalice is a framework for writing serverless applications in Python that provides familiar, declarative APIs to help you write your application. From the first version of this framework, we’ve provided a deployment packager that handles the details of how to package your application for AWS Lambda. This lets you specify third-party package dependencies using […]

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the client-side metrics module for the AWS SDK for Java v2. On July 7th, 2020, we announced a preview release of client-side metrics. With release version 2.14.0 of the SDK, client-side metrics can now be used in production environments. Client-side metrics enable you to collect […]

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 […]

The latest release of AWS Chalice, v1.17.0, now includes a test client that enables you to write tests for your Chalice applications using a concise and simplified API. The test client handles all the boilerplate setup and teardown logic that you’d previously have to write yourself when testing your Chalice applications. This new test client […]

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code implements a new SAM debugging experience based on VS Code launch configurations. This new experience replaces the old Run Locally | Debug Locally experience. To try the SAM debugging experience for VS Code, install the AWS Toolkit from the VS Code Marketplace. The new experience embraces VS Code’s […]

Blazor WebAssembly is a new client-side web development framework that lets developers to use C# to create application front end. Blazor can run client-side C# code directly in the browser, using WebAssembly. Blazor WebAssembly runs on .NET Core and it is an open source and cross-platform web framework for building single-page application using .NET and […]

Version 1.16.0 of AWS Chalice, a framework for writing serverless applications in Python, adds support for custom domain names when creating REST and WebSocket APIs. In this post, we’ll show how to associate your own domain name with a REST API we create. When deploying REST APIs with Chalice, Amazon API Gateway automatically generates the […]

AWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications. Customers use X-Ray to monitor application traces, including the performance of calls to other downstream components or services, in either cloud-hosted applications or from their own machines during development. Until now, setting up this trace capability for .NET applications required that customers […]

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a fundamental component of modern DevOps practices because it enables you to deploy any version of your application infrastructure at will, and facilitates the full lifecycle management of all the resources required to run and monitor your application. Organizations who have adopted DevOps practices often deploy hundreds or even thousands […]

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. The AWS CDK consists of three major components: The core framework for modeling reusable infrastructure components A CLI for deploying CDK applications The AWS Construct Library, a set […]