AWS Developer Tools Blog

This year is just about over, but we are too excited to wait until the new year to share with you a feature we are developing for the AWS SDK for PHP. We are calling it the AWS Resource APIs for PHP. This feature is maintained as a separate package, but it acts as an […]

This year at re:Invent we had a great time meeting customers and discussing their usage of the AWS CLI. We hope everyone had a blast! I had the opportunity to present a talk titled “Advanced Usage of the AWS CLI.” In this talk, I discussed some advanced features of the AWS CLI, and how you […]

Have you ever run aws help on the command line or browsed the AWS CLI Reference Documentation and noticed that there are two sets of Amazon S3 commands to choose from: s3 and s3api? If you are completely unfamiliar with either the s3 or s3api commands, you can read about the two commands in the […]

Last week we released version 0.0.3 of the AWS Resource APIs for Java, adding support for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). SNS and SQS are similar services that together provide a fully-managed cloud messaging platform. These services expose two powerful primitives — Topics and Queues — which let […]

Today, we released version 1.8 of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. For this release, we revamped our wizard to deploy your ASP.NET Applications. Our goal was to make deployment easier as well as take advantage of some of the new features AWS Elastic Beanstalk has added. What happened to the AWS CloudFormation deployments? Unlike […]

Versions 2.3.14 of the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, released today (December 18, 2014), contain updates to the utilities and the Get-EC2ImageByName cmdlet used to query common Microsoft Windows 64-bit Amazon Machine Images using version-independent names. Briefly, we renamed some of the keys used to identify Microsoft Windows Server 2008 […]

We have released a preview of AWS Resource APIs for .NET, which is a brand new high-level API. The latest version of the preview ships with the resource APIs for the following AWS services, support for other services will be added in the near future. Amazon Glacier Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Amazon Simple Queue […]

Today’s release of the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v2.1.0) contains support for a new uploading abstraction in the AWS.S3 service that allows large buffers, blobs, or streams to be uploaded more easily and efficiently, both in Node.js and in the browser. We’re excited to share some details on this new feature in this post. The […]

As mentioned in an earlier blog, encrypting data using the Amazon S3 encryption client is one way you can provide an additional layer of protection for sensitive information you store in Amazon S3. Under the hood, the Amazon S3 encryption client randomly generates a one-time data encryption key per S3 object, encrypts the key using […]

Earlier in this blog series, we showed you how to deploy a Ruby on Rails application to Amazon Web Services using AWS OpsWorks. In that example, we used an OpsWorks-managed MySQL database run on an Amazon EC2 instance. One common piece of feedback on that post was a desire to see how you can set […]