AWS Developer Tools Blog

Amongst the changes to the cmdlets in version 1.1 of the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell are added support for both automatic and manual pagination of the output from services to the pipeline. Most of the time, you’ll probably want to use automatic paging to get all the data from a cmdlet, but on occasion […]

We would like to announce the availability of version 1.0.4 of the AWS Service Provider for Laravel. This version includes the AwsLaravelAwsFacade class which allows you to register an AWS facade in your Laravel 4 project, so you can retrieve clients in an easy and idiomatic way (e.g., $s3 = AWS::get(‘s3’);). We would also like […]

You have probably heard that Ruby 1.8.7 has officially reached it’s end of life. This makes it important for us to discuss what our plans will be for the AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk gem) with regards to Ruby 1.8. We currently support as far back as Ruby 1.8.7. There are now additional considerations with […]

A question that we have heard from our customers is, "How do we get access to the Amazon EC2 instance status checks?" If you go the AWS Management Console, you can easily see those status checks displayed. The Amazon EC2 DescribeInstanceStatus API action returns the instance status for one or more EC2 instances. This code […]

Warning: this blog post provides instructions for AWS SDK for PHP V2, if you are looking for AWS SDK for PHP V3 instructions, please see our SDK guide. Have you ever needed to upload an entire directory of files to Amazon S3 or download an Amazon S3 bucket to a local directory? With a recent release […]

More and more developers are launching the AWS base Windows AMIs and configuring them during startup. You can do this either by adding a PowerShell script to the user data field or by using an AWS CloudFormation template to configure it. We are constantly updating these base AMIs to include the latest patches. The SDK […]

Version 2.4 of the AWS SDK for PHP adds the ability to enable and use static client facades. These “facades” provide an easy, static interface to service clients available in the service builder. For example, when working with a normal client instance, you might have code that looks like the following: // Get the configured […]

Last week we quietly welcomed a new addition to the AWS SDK for Ruby organization. We’re proud to publicly announce that Alex Wood has joined our team and is now a core contributor to the Ruby SDK, as well as some of our other ongoing Ruby-based projects. He’s already jumped in on GitHub where he […]

If your application uses Amazon S3 and deals with sensitive data, then you should be taking advantage of the easy ways of increasing the security of your data using the AWS SDK for Java. There are two easy options for locking down your data using Amazon S3 and the AWS SDK for Java. Which one […]

AWS uses access policies to restrict access to resources. These policies are JSON documents that have statements, actions, resources, and conditions. You could use a JSON parser to create these documents in code, but a better way would be to use the AWS SDK for .NET Policy object found in the Amazon.Auth.AccessControlPolicy namespace. This gives […]