AWS Developer Tools Blog

In this post, I walk you through the steps to build a serverless web application that can accept arbitrary HTTP requests and use custom logic to return arbitrary responses. The concepts in this post are applicable to any situation where you require flexible control over the HTTP requests received and returned by an application that uses […]

In our previous blog, we showed you how to build a Microsoft.NET Web API application with Amazon Aurora Database using AWS CloudFormation. In this blog, we will leverage the development capabilities of defining cloud infrastructure as code using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) which provisions it through AWS CloudFormation. The AWS CDK is an open source […]

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 […]

We are excited to announce that the AWS CLI v2 preview now supports direct integration with AWS Single Sign-On (SSO). You can now create CLI profiles that are linked to SSO accounts and roles. The CLI will automatically retrieve AWS credentials from SSO and refresh them on your behalf. There are new commands to help […]

AWS CLI v2 preview installers are now available for multiple platforms. You can download and test the following platform specific installers: MacOS executable installer Linux executable installer Windows MSI installer These installers do not require Python on your system in order to install the AWS CLI v2 preview. AWS CLI v2 preview will install on […]

At re:Invent 2018 we unveiled the AWS Toolkit for three new IDEs – IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and Visual Studio Code. Powered by the AWS SAM CLI, these toolkits enable local invocation and step-through debugging of your AWS Lambda functions directly in your IDE. We’re pleased to announce that a Preview of the AWS Toolkit is […]

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 […]

Real world Microsoft workloads have a lot of Web APIs that are native to Microsoft methods for serving front-end applications (like ASP.NET, ASP.NET Razor/MVC, ReactJS or Angular Application). Even though there are customers who want to try serverless with AWS Lambda, they often have to continue to maintain many existing .NET web APIs. These applications […]

.NET Core 3.0 was recently released which brings in a host of new features and improvements. This release of .NET Core is called a “Current” release by the .NET team which means it will have a short lifecycle of support after the next release of .NET Core. The Lambda team’s policy is to support Long […]

The AWS SDK for Java v2 introduced immutable models which in turn necessitated using a builder to create request/response objects. Builders are a common pattern for working with immutable objects, they allow building up the state of an object over time and then calling build to create an immutable representation of the object. They also […]