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Hi everyone! Welcome to the AWS Developer Blog for Python. I’m Jordon Phillips, and I work on the AWS SDK for Python. This blog will be the place to go for information about: Tips and tricks for using the AWS SDK for Python New feature announcements Deep dives into AWS SDK for Python features Guest […]

Hi, everyone! Welcome to the AWS Developer Blog for Go. I’m Jason Del Ponte, and I’m a developer on the AWS SDK for Go team. This blog will be the place to go for information about: Tips and tricks for using the AWS SDK for Go New feature announcements Deep dives into the AWS SDK […]

In this blog post we will discuss why it’s important to protect your application from downstream service failures, offer advice for tuning configuration options in the SDK to fit the needs of your application, and introduce new configuration options that can help you set stricter SLAs on service calls. Service failures are inevitable. Even AWS […]

The AWS SDK for .NET is an open source project available on GitHub. This post is to help community developers navigate the SDK code base with an eye toward contributing features and fixes to the SDK. Code Generation The first gotcha for contributors is that major portions of the code are generated from models of […]

When we first started developing the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) nearly three years ago, we had to figure out how to deliver a consistent command-line experience to the ever-expanding surface area of AWS APIs. We decided to auto-generate commands and options from the underlying models that describe AWS APIs. This strategy has enabled us […]

In version 3.1.1.2 of the DynamoDB .NET SDK package, we added pagination support to the Document Model. This feature allows you to use a pagination token returned by the API to paginate a set of Query or Scan results across sessions. Until now, it was not possible to resume pagination of Query or Scan results […]

Today’s guest post is the second part of the two part series by AWS Solutions Architect Russell Day. Part one can be found here. In the previous post, we showed how to use the User data field to install Windows scheduled tasks automatically when Windows EC2 instances are launched. In this post, we will demonstrate […]

Today we refreshed our ASP.NET 5 and CoreCLR support for the AWS SDK for .NET. This means we have pulled in all of the latest service updates, new services like AWS IoT, and enhancements from our stable 3.1 line of NuGet packages into new 3.2 beta versions of the SDK. Because there are a few […]

Today’s guest post is part one of a two part series by AWS Solutions Architect Russell Day. Windows administrators and developers often use scheduled tasks to run programs or scripts on a recurring basis. In this post, we will demonstrate how to use the Amazon EC2 User data option to install scheduled tasks on Windows […]

My colleague Joseph Fontes, an AWS Solutions Architect, wrote the guest post below to discuss automation strategies for AWS Config. There are times when you need to automate the deployment of services either in your account or within external accounts.  When I recently had to enable AWS Config support in remote accounts, I approached this […]