Tag: .NET

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 […]

Yesterday, .NET Core 2.0 was released, and at AWS we’re very excited about the new features and maturity added to the .NET Core platform. In the coming months, we’ll be updating AWS services to have first-class support for .NET Core 2.0. You can get started using .NET Core 2.0 on AWS right away in two […]

The AWS CodeStar team recently announced the addition of two ASP.NET Core project templates. As you might know, AWS CodeStar creates a code-integration and code-deployment(CI/CD) pipeline on behalf of developers, so they can spend their valuable time building applications instead of building infrastructure. With the new ASP.NET Core project templates, .NET developers can build and […]

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the NDC conference in Oslo talking about .NET Core and AWS Serverless technologies. The talk focused around a new reference application I have been working on called Pollster. Two years ago at the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference we demoed a version of Pollster using .NET Core, […]