Integrate Visual Studio with AWS CodeCommit

You can use Visual Studio to make code changes in a CodeCommit repository. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio now includes features that make working with CodeCommit easier and more convenient when working in Visual Studio.. The Toolkit for Visual Studio integration is designed to work with Git credentials and an IAM user. You can clone existing repositories, create repositories, commit and push code changes to a repository, and more.

Important

The Toolkit for Visual Studio is available for installation on Windows operating systems only. If you are looking for information about working with Visual Studio Code, see AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

If you've used the Toolkit for Visual Studio before, you're probably already familiar with setting up AWS credential profiles that contain an access key and secret key. Credential profiles are used in the Toolkit for Visual Studio to enable calls to AWS service APIs (for example, to Amazon S3 to list buckets or to CodeCommit to list repositories). To pull and push code to a CodeCommit repository, you also need Git credentials. If you don't have Git credentials, the Toolkit for Visual Studio can generate and apply those credentials for you. This can save you a lot of time.

To use Visual Studio with CodeCommit, you need the following:

• An IAM user with a valid set of credentials (an access key and secret key) configured for it. This IAM user should also have:

  One of the CodeCommit managed policies and the IAMSelfManageServiceSpecificCredentials managed policy applied to it.

  OR

  If the IAM user already has Git credentials configured, one of the CodeCommit managed policies or equivalent permissions.

  For more information, see AWS managed policies for CodeCommit and Understanding and Getting Your Security Credentials.

• The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio installed on the computer where you've installed Visual Studio. For more information, see Setting Up the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.

For more information on using AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio with CodeCommit, see Using AWS CodeCommit with Visual Studio Team Explorer in the Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide.