AWS Developer Tools Blog

Using NuGet and Chocolatey package managers in AWS CloudFormation and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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 S3 Client-side Key Migration to AWS Key Management Service

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 […]

Mapping Cmdlets to AWS Service APIs

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: […]

Announcing V2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby

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 […]

Upcoming Modularization of the AWS SDK for .NET

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 […]

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Integration with AWS CodeDeploy (Part 3)

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 […]

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Integration with AWS CodeDeploy (Part 1)

We are excited to announce that the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse now includes integration with AWS CodeDeploy and AWS OpsWorks. In addition to the support of AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment, these two new plugins provide more options for Java developers to deploy their web application to AWS directly from their Eclipse development environment. In this […]