Category: Developer Tools

We are excited to announce the Developer Preview of the Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for Rust, a high-level utility that speeds up and simplifies uploads and downloads with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Using this new library, developers can efficiently transfer data between Amazon S3 and various sources, including files, in-memory buffers, memory streams, […]

AWS announces important configuration updates coming July 31st, 2025, affecting AWS SDKs and CLIs default settings. Two key changes include switching the AWS Security Token Service (STS) endpoint to regional and updating the default retry strategy to standard. These updates aim to improve service availability and reliability by implementing regional endpoints to reduce cross-regional dependencies and introducing token-bucket throttling for standardized retry behavior. Organizations should test their applications before the release date and can opt-in early or temporarily opt-out of these changes. These updates align with AWS best practices for optimal service performance and security.

We are happy to announce GraalVM Native Image support for the AWS CRT (Common Runtime) package for Java starting with release 0.31.1. The AWS Java SDK picks up the update since version 2.28.7. Using AWS CRT with GraalVM Native Image in a demo app improved request times and both operational overhead and archive size were […]

This blog was co-authored by Afroz Mohammed and Jonathan Nunn, Software Developers on the AWS PowerShell team. In August 2024, the AWS Tools for PowerShell team announced the upcoming release of the AWS Tools for PowerShell V5. The first preview release of V5 is now available. Preview 1 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell V5 […]

Overview On 2024-11-13, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2 PKG installer and source distribution bundle will no longer support macOS 10.15 (Catalina), following the macOS support policy for the AWS CLI v2. This means that macOS 10.15’s compatibility with newer AWS CLI v2 versions will not be guaranteed. Migrating to macOS 11 or […]

In August 2024, we announced the first preview of our upcoming version 4 of the AWS SDK for .NET. Since then we have continued making progress and released new previews as we go. At the time of writing this post, the SDK has released preview 4. In this post, we’ll take a look at some […]

We’re excited to announce the Developer Preview of DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin. This high-level library provides streamlined, idiomatic ways for developers to map data between their business logic written in Kotlin and their tables in DynamoDB. DynamoDB Mapper works with most Kotlin data classes right out of the box and also offers powerful features for […]

We are excited to announce the General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift, the AWS solution for accessing Amazon Web Services from applications built with the Swift programming language. AWS SDK for Swift provides a modern, user-friendly, and native Swift interface for accessing Amazon Web Services from Apple platforms, AWS Lambda, and Linux-based Swift […]

Starting with version 3.7.400, the AWS SDK for .NET added significant observability enhancements. It introduced powerful tracing and metrics capabilities with OpenTelemetry support, an industry-standard for observability. With these enhancements, developers can now gain deeper insights into their applications’ behavior, from tracking API call durations to monitoring system metrics. In this blog post, we’ll guide […]

Overview Today, Amazon Web Services is announcing the official Linux distribution support policy for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2. In particular, this policy applies to Linux distributions based on the GNU C Library (glibc): the C standard library implementation by the GNU Project. Beginning September 16, 2024, the AWS CLI v2 will […]