AWS Developer Tools Blog

We are pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports Ruby 2.0. Simply select the Ruby version you want, your Rails stack – Passenger or Unicorn, the RubyGems version, and whether you want to use Bundler. Then deploy your app from your chosen repository – Git, Subversion, or bundles on S3. You can get started […]

A web application is typically concerned with quickly sending responses to incoming queries from its users. This model works really well for things like rendering a web page based on a couple of database queries or validating some user input and storing it to a database. The user makes a request to the application to […]

When you install the SDK from our website, many samples are installed inside Visual Studio, including the Express editions of Visual Studio. Look in the New Project Wizard, where you’ll find samples showing off many of the AWS services.   We recently added a new sample that shows off using Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) […]

AWS CloudFormation recently added support for conditions that control whether resources are created or what value to set for properties on resources. The CloudFormation editor included with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio was updated to support conditions in version 1.6.1. If you have never used the CloudFormation editor, we have a screencast that gives […]

This is part 2 of Using AWS CloudTrail in PHP. Part 1 demonstrated the basics of how to work with the CloudTrail service, including how to create a trail and turn logging on and off. Today, I want to show you how to read your log files and iterate over individual log records using the […]

Yesterday afternoon, we released a new version of the AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk RubyGem) version v1.30.0. This release: Adds support for Amazon Kinesis (AWS::Kinesis::Client). Updates AWS::EMR::Client to include resource tagging and other new operations. Updates AWS::OpsWorks::Client to support resource-based permissions. Updates AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Client to support worker roles. Updates AWS::DynamoDB::Client to support global secondary indexes. You […]

We would like to announce the availability of version 1.2.0 of the AWS SDK ZF2 Module. This version includes the ability to create protocol-relative URLs with the S3 and CloudFront link view helpers.

We would like to announce the release of version 2.4.12 of the AWS SDK for PHP. This release adds support for Amazon Kinesis, adds global secondary indexes support to the Amazon DynamoDB client, and provides several other client updates and fixes. Install the Latest SDK Composer/Packagist Download Phar Download Zip PEAR Channel GitHub

As we mentioned in an earlier blog, you can now enable the automatic generation of performance metrics when using the AWS SDK for Java, and have them automatically uploaded to Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring purposes. Sometimes, however, you may want to generate more fine-grained metrics, such as per-host and per-JVM metrics, that are not enabled […]

Version 2.0 of the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell contains new cmdlets that allow you to manage tables in Amazon DynamoDB. The cmdlets all share the same noun prefix, DDB, and can be discovered using Get-Command: PS C:> Get-Command -Module AWSPowerShell -Noun DDB* CommandType Name ModuleName ———– —- ———- Cmdlet Add-DDBIndexSchema AWSPowerShell Cmdlet Add-DDBKeySchema AWSPowerShell […]