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AWS SDK for Ruby - Version 1 Build Status

This is version 1 of the AWS SDK for Ruby. Version 2 can be found in the master branch.

Installation

Version 1 of the AWS SDK for Ruby is available on rubygems.org as two gems:

  • aws-sdk-v1
  • aws-sdk

This project uses semantic versioning. If you are using the aws-sdk gem, we strongly recommend you specify a version constraint in your Gemfile. Version 2 of the Ruby SDK will not be backwards compatible with version 1.

# version constraint
gem 'aws-sdk', '< 2'

# or use the v1 gem
gem 'aws-sdk-v1'

If you use the aws-sdk-v1 gem, you may also load the v2 Ruby SDK in the same process; The v2 Ruby SDK uses a different namespace, making this possible.

# when the v2 SDK ships, you will be able to do the following
gem 'aws-sdk', '~> 2.0'
gem 'aws-sdk-v1'

If you are currently using v1 of aws-sdk and you update to aws-sdk-v1, you may need to change how you require the Ruby SDK:

require 'aws-sdk-v1' # not 'aws-sdk'

If you are using a version of Ruby older than 1.9, you may encounter problems with Nokogiri. The authors dropped support for Ruby 1.8.x in Nokogiri 1.6. To use aws-sdk, you'll also have to install or specify a version of Nokogiri prior to 1.6, like this:

gem 'nokogiri', '~> 1.5.0'

Basic Configuration

You need to provide your AWS security credentials and choose a default region.

AWS.config(access_key_id: '...', secret_access_key: '...', region: 'us-west-2')

You can also specify these values via ENV:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='...'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='...'
export AWS_REGION='us-west-2'

Basic Usage

Each service provides a service interface and a client.

ec2 = AWS.ec2 #=> AWS::EC2
ec2.client #=> AWS::EC2::Client

The client provides one method for each API operation. The client methods accept a hash of request params and return a response with a hash of response data. The service interfaces provide a higher level abstration built using the client.

Example: list instance tags using a client

resp = ec2.client.describe_tags(filters: [{ name: "resource-id", values: ["i-12345678"] }])
resp[:tag_set].first
#=> {:resource_id=>"i-12345678", :resource_type=>"instance", :key=>"role", :value=>"web"}

Example: list instance tags using the AWS::EC2 higher level interface

ec2.instances['i-12345678'].tags.to_h
#=> {"role"=>"web"}

See the API Documentation for more examples.

Testing

All HTTP requests to live services can be globally mocked (e.g. from within the spec_helper.rb file):

AWS.stub!

Links of Interest

Supported Services

The SDK currently supports the following services:

Class API Version AWS Service Name
AWS::AutoScaling 2011-01-01 Auto Scaling
AWS::CloudFormation 2010-05-15 AWS CloudFormation
AWS::CloudFront 2013-05-12 Amazon CloudFront
2013-08-26
2013-09-27
2013-11-11
2013-11-22
2014-01-31
2014-05-31
2014-10-21
2014-11-06
AWS::CloudSearch 2011-02-01 Amazon CloudSearch
2013-01-01
AWS::CloudTrail 2013-11-01 AWS CloudTrail
AWS::CloudWatch 2010-08-01 Amazon CloudWatch
AWS::DataPipeline 2012-10-29 AWS Data Pipeline
AWS::DirectConnect 2012-10-25 AWS Direct Connect
AWS::DynamoDB 2011-12-05 Amazon DynamoDB
2012-08-10
AWS::EC2 2013-08-15 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
2013-10-01
2013-10-15
2014-02-01
2014-05-01
2014-09-01
2014-10-01
AWS::ElastiCache 2013-06-15 Amazon ElastiCache
2014-03-24
2014-07-15
2014-09-30
AWS::ElasticBeanstalk 2010-12-01 AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS::ElasticTranscoder 2012-09-25 Amazon Elastic Transcoder
AWS::ELB 2012-06-01 Elastic Load Balancing
AWS::EMR 2009-03-31 Amazon Elastic MapReduce
AWS::Glacier 2012-06-01 Amazon Glacier
AWS::IAM 2010-05-08 AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS::ImportExport 2010-06-01 AWS Import/Export
AWS::Kinesis 2013-12-02 Amazon Kinesis
AWS::OpsWorks 2013-02-18 AWS OpsWorks
AWS::RDS 2013-05-15 Amazon Relational Database Service (Beta)
2013-09-09
2014-09-01
AWS::Redshift 2012-12-01 Amazon Redshift
AWS::Route53 2012-12-12 Amazon Route 53
2013-04-01
AWS::S3 2006-03-01 Amazon Simple Storage Service
AWS::SimpleDB 2009-04-15 Amazon SimpleDB
AWS::SimpleEmailService 2010-12-01 Amazon Simple E-mail Service
AWS::SimpleWorkflow 2012-01-25 Amazon Simple Workflow Service
AWS::SNS 2010-03-31 Amazon Simple Notifications Service
AWS::SQS 2012-11-05 Amazon Simple Queue Service
AWS::StorageGateway 2012-06-30 AWS Storage Gateway
2013-06-30
AWS::STS 2011-06-15 AWS Security Token Service
AWS::Support 2013-04-15 AWS Support

License

This SDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Copyright 2012. Amazon Web Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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