AWS Developer Tools Blog

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. With release version 2.20.0 of the SDK, the AWS CRT HTTP Client can now be used in production environments. The AWS CRT HTTP Client is an asynchronous, non-blocking HTTP client that […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now allows you to measure how your personalized recommendations to help you achieve your business goals. After specifying metrics you want to track, you can identify which campaigns and recommenders are most impactful and understand the impact of recommendations on your business metrics. All customers want to track […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of two new features in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x that enable accelerated object transfer with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): An AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based S3 SDK client, and the S3 Transfer Manager. The CRT-based S3 client allows you to transfer objects to and […]

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, […]