AWS Developer Tools Blog

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 […]

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. Now the Amazon S3 encryption client provides you with the ability to use authenticated encryption for your stored data via the new CryptoMode.AuthenticatedEncryption option. The Developer Preview of […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.6.2 of the AWS SDK for PHP. Added support for Amazon SQS message attributes. Fixed Amazon S3 multi-part uploads so that manually set ContentType values are not overwritten. No longer recalculating file sizes when an Amazon S3 socket timeout occurs. Added better environment variable detection. Install the […]