Category: AWS Tools for PowerShell

Explore and use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) like a file system with the new S3 PowerShell Drive. You can mount your S3 storage as a drive and navigate it with the same commands that are frequently used for local files: Set-Location, Get-ChildItem, Get-Content, Set-Content, and Remove-Item. Browse buckets and prefixes, read and write […]

If you’ve been managing multiple AWS Tools for PowerShell modules individually, you know how time-consuming installations and updates can be. In this post, we announce the general availability of AWS Tools Installer V2. It minimizes installation time by downloading a single zip file and extracting modules in parallel. In February 2026, we announced the preview […]

As previously announced, version 4 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell entered maintenance mode on March 1, 2026. In accordance with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 has now reached end-of-support as of June 1, 2026.  Starting June 1, 2026, there are no plans for further updates or releases for V4, including security fixes. Previously published releases should continue […]

The new multipart download support in AWS Tools for PowerShell v5 improves the performance of downloading large objects from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) compared to the single-stream downloads. The Read-S3Object and Copy-S3Object cmdlets now deliver faster download speeds through an opt-in switch parameter -UseMultipartDownload for multipart downloads, reducing the need for complex code to manage […]

In alignment with our previous announcement in August 2025 and SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, version 4 of the AWS Tools for PowerShell (AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x) will enter maintenance mode on March 1, 2026 and reach end-of-support on June 1, 2026.

We are excited to offer a preview of AWS Tools Installer V2 which addresses customer feedback for faster and more reliable bulk installation of AWS Tools for PowerShell modules.

This blog was co-authored by Afroz Mohammed and Jonathan Nunn, Software Developers on the AWS PowerShell team. We’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Tools for PowerShell version 5, a major update that brings new features and improvements in security, along with a few breaking changes. New Features You can now cancel […]

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.

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 […]

This blog was co-authored by Afroz Mohammed and Jonathan Nunn, Software Developers on the AWS PowerShell team. Today, we want to let the AWS PowerShell community know about our upcoming plans for the AWS Tools for PowerShell. The current AWS Tools for PowerShell V4 is built on the AWS SDK for .NET V3. Recently, the […]