AWS Developer Tools Blog

In a previous previous blog post, I wrote about how to log requests generated by the AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk gem). While this can be a valuable tool in seeing how your code translates into requests to AWS, it doesn’t do everything. What if you think the SDK is serializing your request incorrectly? Sometimes […]

Jason and I are at EclipseCon in Boston this week to discuss what we’ve learned developing the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse over the last three years. Our session is chock full of advice for how to develop great Eclipse plug-ins, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at how we build the Toolkit. Here’s what we plan […]

If you’re just getting started with the AWS SDK for Java, a great way to learn the SDK is through the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. In addition to all the tools in the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse for managing your AWS resources, deploying your applications, etc., there are also wizards for creating new AWS projects, […]

One of the great APIs inside the AWS SDK for Java is a class called TransferManager that makes working with uploads and downloads from Amazon S3 easy and convenient. TransferManager provides asynchronous management for uploads and downloads between your application and Amazon S3. You can easily check on the status of your transfers, add handlers […]

We love getting contributions from the community to the AWS SDK for Ruby. Whether it be added features, fixed bugs, or just extra optimizations, submitting a pull request helps make the SDK better for all of our users. Since we started the project, the SDK has seen over 60 contributors providing everything from a one […]

In addition to the standard, blocking/synchronous clients in the AWS SDK for Java that you’re probably already familiar with, the SDK also contains non-blocking/asynchronous clients that are just as easy to use, and often more convenient for certain types of applications. When you call an operation with one of the standard, synchronous clients in the […]

We just published version 1.8.3 of the AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk gem).  This release adds support for AWS OpsWorks and resolves a number of customer reported issues.  require ‘aws-sdk’ opsworks = AWS::OpsWorks.new resp = opsworks.client.describe_stacks resp #=> { :stacks => [] } You can view the AWS::OpsWorks::Client API documentation here. Take it for a spin […]

The AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk gem) has some pretty cool logging features. I find them particularly helpful when I need to debug something. I generally jump into an IRB session that has a logger pre-wired for me and then start sending requests. Configuring a Logger To get log messages from the aws-sdk gem, you […]

When you’re building the next great application with AWS services, you’ll probably end up with several different AWS accounts. You may have one account for your production application’s resources, another for your development environment, and a couple more for personal testing. It can be really helpful to switch between these various accounts during your development, […]

I came across an excellent question earlier this week on our support forums. The question was essentially, “How can I fetch object data and metadata from Amazon S3 in a single call?” This is fair question, also one I did not have a good answer to. Amazon S3 returns both object data and metadata in […]