AWS Developer Tools Blog

Since Guzzle 4 was released in March (and even before then), we’ve received several requests for us to update the AWS SDK for PHP to use Guzzle 4. Earlier this month, we tweeted about it too and received some pretty positive feedback about the idea. We wanted to take some time to talk about what […]

You may have heard about the Requester Pays feature in Amazon S3 that allows bucket owners to pass the data transfer costs to users who download the data. Users can now use the AWS SDK for Java to enable/disable Requester Pays on their buckets. To enable Requester Pays on an Amazon S3 bucket // create […]

We’ve talked in the past about the importance of secure credentials management. When your application is running in production, IAM roles for Amazon EC2 are a great way to securely deliver AWS credentials to your application. However, they’re by definition available only when your application is running on EC2 instances. If you’re a developer making […]

I recently had the pleasure to attend and speak at Laracon, which is a conference for users of the Laravel PHP framework. This is the second year that they have done Laracon. Last year, Laracon (US) was in Washington D.C., but this year they did it in New York City. The thing that impressed me […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.6.6 of the AWS SDK for PHP. This release, combined with the last few releases that we forgot to blog about, contain the following changes: Added support for the Desired Partition Count scaling option to the CloudSearch client. Hebrew is also now a supported language. Updated […]

The release of AWS SDK for .NET version 2.1.0 has introduced a number of changes to the high-level Amazon DynamoDB classes. Now, less markup is required to use classes with DynamoDBContext, as the SDK now infers reasonable default behavior. You can customize this behavior through app.config/web.config files and during run time through the SDK. In […]

The documentation for Amazon CloudWatch contains this sample scenario for setting up alarms to monitor your estimated charges. Apart from a one-time operation to enable billing alerts for your account, the same capability can be set up and maintained using the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. Enabling Alerts The first step is to enable billing […]

Last month the Amazon DynamoDB team announced a new pair of features: Improved Query Filtering and Conditional Updates.  In this post, we’ll show how to use the new and improved conditional writes feature of DynamoDB to speed up your app. Let’s say you’re building a racing game, where two players advance in position until they […]

There are a number of ways to provide AWS credentials to your .NET applications. One approach is to embed your credentials in the appSettings sections of your App.config file. While this is easy and convenient, your AWS credentials might end up getting checked into source control or published to places that you didn’t mean. A […]

The AWS SDK for Ruby provides a few methods for getting objects out of Amazon S3. This blog post focuses on using the v2 Ruby SDK (the aws-sdk-core gem) to download objects from Amazon S3. Downloading Objects into Memory For small objects, it can be useful to get an object and have it available in […]