AWS Developer Tools Blog

We are excited to announce that official Docker images of the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2 are now available on Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (Amazon ECR Public) gallery. Customers will now be able to pull all past and future images of the AWS CLI v2 from Amazon ECR Public. Previously, official AWS […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudFront signed URLs and signed cookies in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. You can now securely serve private content through CloudFront, requiring that your users access your content by using special CloudFront signed URLs or signed cookies. To configure your CloudFront distribution to use […]

Today, the AWS Toolkits for JetBrains and VS Code released a faster code iteration experience for developing AWS SAM applications. The AWS Toolkits are open source plugins for JetBrains and VS Code IDEs that provide an integrated experience for developing Serverless applications, including assistance for getting started and local step-through debugging capabilities for Serverless applications. […]

The Node.js 18.x runtime was promoted to Active Long Term Support (LTS) on October 25th, 2022, and is now available in AWS Lambda. The AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) is included by default in AWS Lambda Node.js 18 runtime as a convenience for developers building simpler functions. You can read about features in Node.js 18 […]

AWS Toolkit for VS Code has shipped improvements that help customers setting up a new machine without AWS credentials files (typically in “~/.aws/”—the “.aws” directory of the machine home folder). Setting up credentials is the first step to working with AWS cloud resources, but it’s not a frequent task, so one often needs to read […]

We are excited to announce that the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2 is now available for download over IPv6 connections. Customers can now download the AWS CLI v2 installers for IPv6-only environments, such as Amazon EC2 running inside an IPv6-only Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Previously, the AWS CLI v2 installation packages were only […]

The AWS Smithy team is happy to announce the 2.0 release of the Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL). This release focuses on improving the developer experience of authoring Smithy models and using code generated from Smithy models. It contains numerous new features, such as reduced nulls and optional types in generated code, custom default values, […]

We are happy to announce the general availability of a new deployment experience in both the Visual Studio and the .NET CLI. This follows the preview announcement from last year. The new deployment experience focuses on the type of application you want to deploy instead of individual AWS services by providing intelligent compute recommendations. You […]

Using Amazon Corretto (OpenJDK) for lean, fast, and efficient AWS Lambda By Guest Blogger Adam Bien In this post, I will discuss how you can launch large, monolithic applications on top of AWS Lambda, and I’ll show that they perform well and are cost effective. You’ll learn that the same application you develop for Lambda […]

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) version 1 (v1) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go is now in maintenance mode. AWS CDK v1 is no longer receiving higher-level “L2” construct updates for new or existing services. It will continue receiving updates for new and updated resource level “L1” constructs, critical bug fixes, and security updates only.  We […]