Category: Technical How-to

Upgrading from AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v1 to AWS CLI v2 brings valuable improvements, but requires attention to several changes that may affect your existing workflows, such as failing commands, or misconfiguration. The AWS CLI v1-to-v2 Migration Tool helps you identify and resolve issues before upgrading, making transition easier. It analyzes bash scripts […]

This blog post shows you how to extend LZA with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that maintain your governance controls and accelerate workload deployments, offering rapid deployment of both Terraform and AWS CloudFormation across multiple accounts. You’ll build automated infrastructure deployment workflows that run in parallel with LZA’s baseline orchestration to help maintain your enterprise governance and compliance control requirements. You will implement built-in validation, security scanning, and cross-account deployment capabilities to help address Public Sector use cases that demand strict compliance and security requirements.

Deploying applications to AWS typically involves researching service options, estimating costs, and writing infrastructure-as-code tasks that can slow down development workflows. Agent plugins extend coding agents with specialized skills, enabling them to handle these AWS-specific tasks directly within your development environment. Today, we’re announcing Agent Plugins for AWS (Agent Plugins), an open source repository of […]

Software development is far more than just writing code. In reality, a developer spends a large amount of time maintaining existing applications and fixing bugs. For example, migrating a Go application from the older AWS SDK for Go v1 to the newer v2 can be a significant undertaking, but it’s a crucial step to future-proof […]

The Amazon Corretto team delivers more than 75 OpenJDK bundles for various platforms and Java versions. These builds include the AWT and Swing UI libraries. Since a button needs to look like a button after a Java update, and even the smallest change can have a significant impact on how graphical elements are rendered, we […]

This blog post is intended to notify customers using the AWS SDK for Java v2.x, AWS SDK for .NET v3.x, or AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x, of a change in parameter type for the S3 GetObjectAttributes API. This change may require a type definition change in your code. On September 20, 2023, we released a […]

The AWS SDKs and Tools team is excited to announce improvements for configuration of the endpoint URL used for API service requests through the shared SDK configuration file and environment variables with the AWS SDKs and Tools. Previously, you could specify the endpoint URL used for AWS requests by setting the –endpoint-url command line parameter […]

Increasingly enterprises and customers run and manage applications at a global scale that need to be resilient and highly available. In order to deliver the best possible experience to their end consumers, these applications need to safeguard against risks of service disruptions and downtime. Risks due to service downtime, due to natural disasters, hardware failures, […]

Using Amazon Corretto (OpenJDK) for lean, fast, and efficient AWS Lambda By Guest Blogger Adam Bien In this post, I will discuss how you can launch large, monolithic applications on top of AWS Lambda, and I’ll show that they perform well and are cost effective. You’ll learn that the same application you develop for Lambda […]

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) version 1 (v1) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go is now in maintenance mode. AWS CDK v1 is no longer receiving higher-level “L2” construct updates for new or existing services. It will continue receiving updates for new and updated resource level “L1” constructs, critical bug fixes, and security updates only.  We […]