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Category: AWS SDK for .NET
Enhancing Observability in the AWS SDK for .NET with OpenTelemetry
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 […]
Preview 1 of AWS SDK for .NET V4
In February 2024, AWS SDK for .NET team announced changes to the minimum .NET target versions the AWS SDK for .NET will support. The major changes announced were ending support for .NET Framework 3.5 and changing the minimum .NET Framework to 4.6.2. In June we revised the blog post with the .NET Framework minimum set […]
Important changes coming for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.5 targets of the AWS SDK for .NET
Update June 20th, 2024: Initially this announcement specified the minimum .NET Framework version would change to 4.6.2. During the development of this work we determined that 4.7.2 would be a better minimum target framework for the long term direction of the SDK. With 4.7.2 the SDK has access to more crypto algorithms that we will […]
Improved DynamoDB Initialization Patterns for the AWS SDK for .NET
The AWS SDK for .NET includes the Document and Object Persistence programming models, which provide an idiomatic .NET experience for working with Amazon DynamoDB. Beginning in AWSSDK.DynamoDBv2 3.7.203, there are new ways to initialize the document and object persistence models which can improve your application’s performance by reducing thread contention and throttling issues during the first call to DynamoDB. […]
Update to AWS SDK for Java v2, AWS SDK for .NET v3, and AWS Tools for PowerShell when using S3 GetObjectAttributes API
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 […]
AWS announces a streamlined deployment experience for .NET applications
We are happy to announce the general availability of a new deployment experience in both the Visual Studio and the .NET CLI. This follows the preview announcement from last year. The new deployment experience focuses on the type of application you want to deploy instead of individual AWS services by providing intelligent compute recommendations. You […]
Tips & Tricks: Delaying AWS Service configuration when using .NET Dependency Injection
Tips & Tricks: Delaying AWS Service configuration when using .NET Dependency Injection The AWSSDK.Extensions.NETCore.Setup package provides extensions for enabling AWS Service Client creation to work with native .NET Dependency Injection. Bindings for one or more services can be registered via the included AddAWSService<TService> method and a shared configuration can be added and customized via the […]
Build and Deploy a Microsoft .NET Core Web API application to AWS App Runner using CloudFormation
In this blog we show you how to build a Microsoft.NET Web API application with Amazon Aurora Database using AWS App Runner. AWS App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs, and helps us start with our source code or a container image. Container workload management tasks, such […]
Tips & Tricks: Debugging your C# CDK project in Visual Studio
NOTE: This post assumes the reader has some familiarity with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). To get started with the AWS CDK, please visit the AWS CDK Developer Guide and follow the AWS CDK for .NET workshop. The AWS CDK is an an open-source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) framework that allows developers to model and provision […]
.NET at re:Invent 2021
Running .NET applications on AWS has never been better and our sessions at re:Invent this year reflect that excitement. All our sessions are for builders who want real-world insights and coding examples they can immediately apply in their applications. We also have a virtual option for those who cannot make it to Las Vegas. This […]