Tag: .NET

This is a guest post from Trevor Sullivan, a Seattle-based Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since 2004, Trevor has worked intimately with Microsoft technologies, including PowerShell since its release in 2006. In this article, Trevor takes you through the process of using the AWS Tools for PowerShell to write and export metrics data […]

Today’s post is from AWS Solution Architect Aravind Kodandaramaiah. We recently announced the new AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. In this post, we show you how you can use these tools to deploy your .NET web applications from Team Services to Amazon EC2 instances by using AWS CodeDeploy. We don’t cover setting up the tools in […]

Today’s post is from AWS Solution Architect and Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Data Center Management, Trevor Sullivan. The AWS Tools for PowerShell now offer a new command that makes it easier to authenticate to the Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is a service that enables customers to upload and store […]

You can now use an AWS KMS key as your master key when you use the AmazonS3EncryptionClient class for client-side encryption. The main advantage of using an AWS KMS key as your master key is that you don’t need to store and manage your own master keys. It’s done by AWS. A second advantage of […]

In an upcoming release of the AWS SDK for .NET, the FallbackCredentialsFactory class and the FallbackRegionFactory class will allow the use of the AWS_PROFILE environment variable. The SDK currently looks for a profile named “default” when retrieving credentials and region settings. After this change is released, users will be able to set the AWS_PROFILE environment […]

We are happy to announce that Elastic Beanstalk’s Windows platform now supports .NET Core 2.0, which is now preinstalled along with the previous 1.0 and 1.1 versions of .NET Core. The easiest way to get started with deploying ASP.NET Core, the web framework for .NET Core, is using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio which […]

In previous posts, we talked about our new AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), which provides AWS tasks you can add to your build definition. We also talked about our AWS Elastic Beanstalk task that you can use to deploy .NET web applications. In our initial release, there are also two tasks […]

We recently announced the new AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Today let’s take a deeper look at how you can use the new tools to support deploying your .NET web applications from Team Services to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk uses environments to run .NET web applications. Before using this task, you […]

We are pleased to announce the Developer Preview of the CognitoAuthentication extension library. This library simplifies the authentication process of Amazon Cognito User Pools for .NET 4.5, .NET Core, and Xamarin developers. Many customers reported that they directly implemented the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol themselves. This process requires hundreds of lines of difficult cryptography […]

Today Amazon Web Services announced the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The tools are free to use and are distributed in the Visual Studio Marketplace. You can use these tasks in build and release pipelines hosted within VSTS and Team Foundation Server to interact with AWS services. For example, you can […]