Category: Java

The com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3Object class now implements the Closeable interface (AWS SDK for Java 1.4.8 onwards). This allows you to use it as a resource in a try-with-resources statement. S3Object contains an S3ObjectInputStream that lets you stream down your data over the HTTP connection from Amazon S3. Since the HTTP connection is open and waiting, it’s important […]

Today we have another guest post from a member of the Amazon DynamoDB team, Pejus Das. The Amazon DynamoDB service provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. It also has a list of common errors that can occur during request processing. You probably have a set of test suites that you run before you […]

A few of us from the SDKs and Tools teams will be down in Portland for OSCON next week. We’ll be at the AWS booth talking to customers, answering questions, and as always, looking for talented engineers, managers, and designers interested in building the future of the AWS platform. If you aren’t able to drop […]

We released version 1.5.0 of the AWS SDK for Java last night.  This release contains several exciting enhancements including: Upgrading to the latest major version of Apache HttpClient Support for the Closeable interface on Amazon S3 objects Easier construction of requests that use map datatypes Batching improvements for Amazon DynamoDB Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder’s […]

If your application uses Amazon S3 and deals with sensitive data, then you should be taking advantage of the easy ways of increasing the security of your data using the AWS SDK for Java. There are two easy options for locking down your data using Amazon S3 and the AWS SDK for Java. Which one […]

Today we’re lucky to have another guest post by David Yanacek from the Amazon DynamoDB team. David is sharing his deep knowledge on Amazon DynamoDB to help explain how to manage performance and throughput usage on your DynamoDB tables. When you scan your table in Amazon DynamoDB, you should follow the DynamoDB best practices for […]

Today we have a guest post by David Yanacek from the Amazon DynamoDB team. The AWS SDK for Java provides a convenient set of methods for building request objects. This set of methods, known as a fluent interface, can save you from repeatedly retyping the request variable name, and can even make your code more […]

Now that you know the basics about creating AWS Java web applications and deploying them using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, let’s talk about some of the ways you can control how your environment runs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides several easy ways to configure different features of your environment. The first mechanism we’ll look at […]

In this three part series, we’ll show how easy it is to deploy a Java web application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. In part one of this series, we showed how to create an AWS Java Web Project and deploy it to a local Tomcat server. This is a great […]

We’ve just released a new version of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse that adds support for managing your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources directly from within Eclipse, and updates the Amazon DynamoDB Create Table Wizard in the toolkit to support creating tables with Local Secondary Indexes. Check out the new functionality and let […]