AWS Developer Tools Blog

AWS CLI v2 development

The AWS CLI is a command line tool for interacting with AWS services and managing your AWS resources. Since the AWS CLI was released five years ago, community feedback has driven many of its features and enhancements. Over the years, however, we couldn’t address some of the community feedback that we received in a backward-compatible […]

AWS CDK for .NET

AWS CDK for .NET The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) Developer Preview now has support for .NET! The AWS CDK is a software development framework to define cloud infrastructure as code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. This provides familiarity, IDE and tools support, and flexibility that are unavailable when using static text definitions. […]

Announcing Lambda Support for PowerShell Core

Today we are excited to release support for PowerShell Core 6.0 with AWS Lambda. This new feature enables you to execute PowerShell scripts or functions in response to any Lambda event, such as an HAQM S3 event or HAQM CloudWatch scheduled event. Setting up a development environment Before we get started developing PowerShell based Lambda […]

.NET Core Global Tools for AWS

One of the exciting new features in .NET Core 2.1 are Global Tools. Global Tools provide the ability to distribute command line tools via a NuGet package and install them with the dotnet command line. Before Global Tools were released, .NET Core had the concept of project tools, which were tied to a specific project […]

AWS CDK Developer Preview

We are thrilled to announce the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Developer Preview release for TypeScript, JavaScript, and Java; with .NET, and Python coming soon. The AWS CDK is a software development framework to define cloud infrastructure as code and provision it through CloudFormation. The CDK integrates fully with AWS services and offers a higher-level […]

.NET Core Lambda Deployment task enhancements in the AWS Tools for VSTS

In the recent version 1.1 update of the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we added some enhancements to the AWS .NET Core Lambda Deployment task. These enhancements are based on user feedback requesting help with CI/CD scenarios, where users wanted their builds to package their AWS Lambda functions or serverless applications, […]

Updates to the AWS Tools for Visual Studio Team Services

Today we released version 1.1.0 of the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This version includes new tasks, updates to existing tasks, and a change to how AWS credentials and region are handled by the tasks to make using them easier and more convenient. In this post, we’ll take a brief look […]

Introducing support for HAQM S3 Select in the AWS SDK for JavaScript

We’re excited to announce support for the HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) selectObjectContent API with event streams in the AWS SDK for JavaScript. Using HAQM S3 Select, you can query for a subset of data from an S3 object by using simple SQL expressions. HAQM S3 streams the responses as a series of events, […]