AWS Developer Tools Blog
Category: Programing Language
Setting up an Android application with AWS SDK for C++
The AWS SDK for C++ can build and run on many different platforms, including Android. In this post, I walk you through building and running a sample application on an Android device. Overview I cover the following topics: Building and installing the SDK for C++ and creating a desktop application that implements the basic functionality. […]
Introducing the ‘aws-rails-provisioner’ gem developer preview
AWS is happy to announce that the aws-rails-provisioner gem for Ruby is now in developer preview and available for you to try! What is aws-rails-provisioner? The new aws-rails-provisioner gem is a tool that helps you define and deploy your containerized Ruby on Rails applications on AWS. It currently only supports AWS Fargate. aws-rails-provisioner is a […]
Serverless data engineering at Zalando with the AWS CDK
This blog was authored by Viacheslav Inozemtsev, Data Engineer at Zalando, an active user of the serverless technologies in AWS, and an early adopter of the AWS Cloud Development Kit. Infrastructure is extremely important for any system, but it usually doesn’t carry business logic. It’s also hard to manage and track. Scripts and templates […]
Referencing the AWS SDK for .NET Standard 2.0 from Unity, Xamarin, or UWP
In March 2019, AWS announced support for .NET Standard 2.0 in SDK for .NET. They also announced plans to remove the Portable Class Library (PCL) assemblies from NuGet packages in favor of the .NET Standard 2.0 binaries. If you’re starting a new project targeting a platform supported by .NET Standard 2.0, especially recent versions of Unity, Xamarin and […]
Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit and Python
This post introduces you to the new Python bindings for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). What’s the AWS CDK, you might ask? Good question! You are probably familiar with the concept of infrastructure as code (IaC). When you think of IaC, you might think of things like AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation allows you […]
Node.js 6 is approaching End-of-Life – upgrade your AWS Lambda functions to the Node.js 10 LTS
This blog was authored by Liz Parody, Developer Relations Manager at NodeSource. Node.js 6.x (“Boron”), which has been maintained as a long-term stable (LTS) release line since fall of 2016, is reaching its scheduled end-of-life (EOL) on April 30, 2019. After the maintenance period ends, Node.js 6 will no longer be included in Node.js […]
V2 AWS SDK for Go adds Context to API operations
As of January 19th, 2021, the AWS SDK for Go, version 2 (v2) is generally available. The v2 AWS SDK for Go developer preview made a breaking change in the release of v0.8.0. The v0.8.0 release added a new parameter, context.Context, to the SDK’s Send and Paginate Next methods. Context was added as a required […]
Query Systems Manager Parameter Store for AWS Regions, endpoints and more using PowerShell
In Jeff Barr’s recent blog post, he announced support for querying AWS Region and service availability programmatically by using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. The examples in the blog post all used the AWS CLI, but the post noted that you can also use the AWS Tools for PowerShell. In this post I’ll show you […]
PowerShell Standard support in AWSPowerShell.NetCore
In 2016, we released AWS Tools for PowerShell Core targeting PowerShell Core 6.0, which provided cross-platform support for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows. We published this module separately from AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell because it was not compatible with earlier versions of PowerShell. Last year, Microsoft released PowerShell Standard: a new library […]
Generate an Amazon S3 presigned URL with SSE using the AWS SDK for C++
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) presigned URLs give you or your customers an option to access an Amazon S3 object identified in the URL, without having AWS credentials and permissions. With server-side encryption (SSE) specified, Amazon S3 will encrypt the data when the object is written to disks, and decrypt the data when the […]

