AWS Developer Tools Blog

In this post, we’ll see how to use Identity and Access Management(IAM) roles for Amazon EC2 instances. Using IAM roles for EC2 instances, you don’t need to manage or distribute credentials that your application needs. Instead, credentials are automatically distributed to EC2 instances and picked up by the AWS SDK for .NET. Here are the […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.6.1 of the AWS SDK for PHP. This release adds support for the latest features in Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Auto Scaling; introduces support for a new INI-formatted credentials file (more information about this will be coming in a future blog post); and fixes a […]

Evan Brown is doing a great five part series on the AWS Application Management Blog on developing, deploying, and managing for scale with Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation. In each of his five blog posts, Evan breaks down a different topic and explains best practices as well as practical tips and tricks for working with applications […]

Sometimes, when sending requests using the AWS SDK for .NET, you are required to explicitly specify an endpoint URL for a service. One such scenario is when you use an older version of the SDK to send requests to a particular service and that service is introduced in a new region. To access the service […]

In a recent post, I talked about Receiving Amazon SNS Messages in PHP. I showed you how to use the SNS Message and MessageValidator classes in the AWS SDK for PHP to handle incoming SNS messages. The PHP code for the webhook is easy to write, but can be difficult to test properly, since it […]

The following post details how to use version 2 of the AWS SDK for PHP to receive and validate HTTP(S) messages from Amazon SNS. For a guide on how to do so with version 3 of the SDK, please see our updated post. Handling inbound Amazon SNS notification messages with PHP is simple. In this […]

As described in an earlier post, the AWS SDK for .NET has support for logging service responses, error responses, and metrics for AWS API calls. For the SDK, this is enabled through the App.config or Web.config file. The AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell supports a shell variable, named $AWSHistory, that records what cmdlets have been […]

We recently made the Amazon S3 Transfer Utility API in AWS SDK for .NET available for the Windows Store and Windows Phone platforms. TransferUtility is an API that runs on top of the low-level Amazon S3 API and provides utility methods for uploading and downloading files and directories. It includes support for automatic switching to […]

Suppose you have a partner who would like to encrypt and upload some confidential data to you via Amazon S3, but doesn’t want anyone other than you to be able to decrypt the data. Is this possible? Yes! That’s a classical use case of Public-key Cryptography, and AmazonS3EncryptionClient makes it easy to do. First of […]

The latest addition to the list of Transfer Manager features is the ability to easily make copies of your data in Amazon S3. The new TransferManager.copy method allows you to easily copy an existing Amazon S3 object from one location to another. Under the hood, TransferManager selects which copy algorithm is best for your data, […]