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Overview of AWS SDK for JavaScript

Modular AWS SDK for JavaScript – Release Candidate

As of December 15th, 2020, the AWS SDK for JavaScript, version 3 (v3) is generally available. We’re happy to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of the AWS SDK for JavaScript, version 3 (v3). This RC follows the Developer preview release of the JavaScript SDK. It is a major rewrite of the version 2.x code base, and […]

Introducing support for Amazon S3 Select in the AWS SDK for JavaScript

We’re excited to announce support for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) selectObjectContent API with event streams in the AWS SDK for JavaScript. Using Amazon S3 Select, you can query for a subset of data from an S3 object by using simple SQL expressions. Amazon S3 streams the responses as a series of events, […]

Creating and Deploying a Serverless Web Application with CloudFormation and Ember.js

Serverless computing enables you to build scalable and cost-effective applications that scale up or down automatically without provisioning, scaling, and managing servers. You can use AWS Lambda to execute your back-end application code, Amazon API Gateway for a fully managed service to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure your REST API, and Amazon S3 to […]

React Native Support in the AWS SDK for JavaScript

We’re excited to announce React Native support in the AWS SDK for JavaScript. You can now access all services that are currently supported in the AWS SDK for JavaScript from within a React Native application. You can configure Amazon Cognito Identity as the authentication provider by using the same Amazon Cognito Identity credentials you might […]

AWS Lambda Support for Node.js 4.3.2 Runtime

We are pleased to announce that in conjunction with the availability of Node.js 4.3.2 in AWS Lambda, Version 2.3.2 of the AWS SDK for JavaScript (in both Node.js and in the browser) supports the passing in of “nodejs4.3” as a value for the Runtime parameter for the createFunction and updateFunctionConfiguration operations. Now that the Node.js […]

Support for Promises in the SDK

Today’s release of the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v2.3.0) introduces support for promises when calling service operations. Promises provide an alternative to the use of a callback function to manage asynchronous flow. They allow treating asynchronous calls as a variable, simplifying error handling and providing greater control over handling results from asynchronous calls. For more […]

Announcing the Amazon DynamoDB Document Client in the AWS SDK for JavaScript

Version 2.2.0 of the AWS SDK for JavaScript introduces support for the document client abstraction in the AWS.DynamoDB namespace. The document client abstraction makes it easier to read and write data to Amazon DynamoDB with the AWS SDK for JavaScript. Now you can use native JavaScript objects without annotating them as AttributeValue types. This article […]