AWS Developer Tools Blog

What is client-side encryption, and why might I want to use it? If you wish to store sensitive data in Amazon S3 with the AWS SDK for Ruby, you have several ways of managing the safety and security of the data. One good practice is to use HTTPS whenever possible to protect your data in […]

As of the 2.3.0 release, the AWS SDK for PHP now provides an official Amazon S3 PHP stream wrapper. The stream wrapper allows you to treat Amazon S3 like a filesystem using functions like fopen(), file_get_contents(), and filesize() through a custom stream wrapper protocol. The Amazon S3 stream wrapper opens up some interesting possibilities that […]

A few of us from the SDKs and Tools teams will be down in Portland for OSCON next week. We’ll be at the AWS booth talking to customers, answering questions, and as always, looking for talented engineers, managers, and designers interested in building the future of the AWS platform. If you aren’t able to drop […]

Today marks the second anniversary of the AWS SDK for Ruby. Over the last two years, the SDK has grown and developed to support the full array of available AWS services and high-level features, like resource abstractions, enumeration, as well as Rails email and model layer integration. We are honored by the positive customer feedback […]

In the previous post in this series, we introduced the .ebextensions/*config file, and showed how you can use it to install packages, download files, run commands, and start services. In this post, we’re going to dig a little bit into managing settings through this mechanism. Writing configuration files A common way to configure software systems […]

You can easily upload your data archives to Amazon Glacier by using the Glacier client included in the AWS SDK for PHP. Similar to the Amazon S3 service, Amazon Glacier has an API for both single and multipart uploads. You can upload archives of up to 40,000 GB through the multipart operations. With the UploadArchive […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk recently announced support for customizing Windows environments with configuration files. Before this, the only way to customize a .NET container was to create a custom AMI in each region you wanted to run your application in. Adding a configuration file to your application allows you to install packages write files in locations […]

We released version 1.5.0 of the AWS SDK for Java last night.  This release contains several exciting enhancements including: Upgrading to the latest major version of Apache HttpClient Support for the Closeable interface on Amazon S3 objects Easier construction of requests that use map datatypes Batching improvements for Amazon DynamoDB Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder’s […]

We would like to announce the release of version 2.4.1 of the AWS SDK for PHP. This release adds support for setting watermark and max frame rate parameters in the Amazon Elastic Transcoder client and resolves issues with the Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EMR, and Amazon RDS clients. Changelog […]

We just released v1.12.0 of the AWS SDK for Ruby  (aws-sdk gem).  This release includes the new aws-rb REPL that Loren bloged about. It also adds support for watermarks and max frame rates in Amazon Elastic Transcoder, resolves a number of issues, and it adds a few new configuration options. We are slowly deprecating all of the […]