AWS Developer Tools Blog

As we showed in previous posts, it’s easy to put JSON items into Amazon DynamoDB, retrieve specific attributes with projection expressions, and fetch only data that meet some criteria with condition expressions. Now, let’s take a look at how we can conditionally modify existing items with Update Expressions. (Note: this code uses the same ProductCatalog […]

As we showed in the previous post, it’s easy to put JSON items into Amazon DynamoDB and retrieve specific attributes with projection expressions. Condition Expressions provide a more flexible and SQL-like way to retrieve only the items you want from DynamoDB. First, let’s put a few more items into DynamoDB using a BatchWriteItem operation. (Note: […]

In this guest post by AWS Solutions Architect Lee Atkinson, we are going to describe how you can take advantage of the NuGet and Chocolatey package managers inside your CloudFormation templates and Elastic Beanstalk applications. AWS CloudFormation and AWS Elastic Beanstalk support the Microsoft Windows Installer for installing .msi files onto Microsoft Windows instances managed […]

Amazon DynamoDB launched JSON Document Support along with several improvements to the DynamoDB API. This post is part of a series where we’ll explore these features in more depth with the AWS SDK for Ruby V2. In particular, this post focuses on putting items into DynamoDB using the Ruby SDK and controlling the data we […]

In an earlier blog, Taming client-side key rotation with the Amazon S3 encryption client, we introduced the putInstructionFile API that makes Amazon S3 client-side key rotation easy. In the long run, however, wouldn’t it be nice if you could eliminate the administrative overhead of managing your client-side master keys, and instead have them fully managed […]

The consistency of the standardized verb and naming scheme used by Windows PowerShell makes learning the basics of the shell relatively easy, but translating knowledge of an existing API to the standard names can be difficult at first. Starting with version 2.3.19, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell contains a new cmdlet to help with discovery: […]

As part of our recent preview release of Resource APIs for .NET we have exposed one of the underlying features in the low-level .NET SDK as well. Many of the AWS APIs that return collections of items have a pagination interface. Rather than return all results at once, the service returns a certain number of […]

I am excited to announce today’s stable release of version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby. It is available now as the aws-sdk gem on RubyGems. Features Version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby, the aws-sdk gem, provides a number of powerful features for developers including: Support for 40+ services Resource interfaces for […]

Today, I would like to announce our plans to modularize the AWS SDK for .NET into individual assemblies and NuGet packages. This work will take us a few months to complete, but we recognize this will be a pretty big change to how developers see the SDK and want to give as much of a […]

In this part of the series, we will show you how easy it is to run deployment commands on your EC2 fleet with the help of the AWS CodeDeploy plugin for Eclipse. Create AppSpec Template First, let’s create a shell script that executes the command we need to run on our instances: /home/hanshuo/stop-httpd-server-appspec/template/stop-httpd.sh #!/bin/bash service […]