AWS SDKs and Tools Reference Guide

Many SDKs and tools share some common functionality, either through shared design specifications or through a shared library.

This guide includes information regarding:

• Configuration – How to use the shared config and credentials files or environment variables to configure your AWS SDKs and tools.

• Authentication and access – Establish how your code or tool authenticates with AWS when you develop with AWS services.

• Settings reference – Reference for all standardized settings available for authentication and configuration.

• AWS Common Runtime (CRT) libraries – Overview of the shared AWS Common Runtime (CRT) libraries that are available to almost all SDKs.

• AWS SDKs and Tools maintenance policy covers the maintenance policy and versioning for AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs) and tools, including Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) SDKs, and their underlying dependencies.

This AWS SDKs and Tools Reference Guide is intended to be a base of information that is applicable to multiple SDKs and tools. The specific guide for the SDK or tool that you are using should be used in addition to any information presented here. The following are the SDK and tools which have relevant sections of material in this guide:

If you are using:	This guide’s relevant sections for you are:
Any SDK or tool	AWS SDKs and Tools maintenance policy
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) Developer Guide AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide AWS Toolkit for Eclipse User Guide AWS Toolkit for JetBrains User Guide AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide	Configuration Authentication and access AWS SDKs and Tools maintenance policy
AWS Command Line Interface User Guide AWS SDK for C++ Developer Guide AWS SDK for Go Developer Guide AWS SDK for Java Developer Guide AWS SDK for JavaScript Developer Guide AWS SDK for Kotlin AWS SDK for .NET Developer Guide AWS SDK for PHP Developer Guide AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) Getting Started AWS SDK for Ruby Developer Guide AWS SDK for Rust AWS SDK for Swift AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell User Guide	Configuration Authentication and access Settings reference AWS Common Runtime (CRT) libraries AWS SDKs and Tools maintenance policy AWS SDKs and Tools version support matrix

Developer resources

For an overview of tools that can help you develop applications on AWS, see Tools to Build on AWS. For information on support, see the AWS Knowledge Center.

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Toolkit telemetry notification

AWS Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Toolkits are plugins and extensions that enable access to AWS services from your IDE. For detailed information about each of the IDE Toolkits, see the Toolkit User Guides in the preceding table.

AWS IDE Toolkits may collect and store client-side telemetry data to inform decisions regarding future AWS Toolkit releases. The data collected quantifies your usage of the AWS Toolkit.

To learn more about the telemetry data collected across all of the AWS IDE Toolkits, see the commonDefinitions.json document in the aws-toolkit-common Github repository.

For detailed information about the telemetry data collected by each of the AWS IDE Toolkits, reference the resource documents in the following AWS Toolkits' Github repositories:

• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

• AWS Toolkit for JetBrains

Certain AWS services that are accessible in the AWS Toolkits may collect additional client-side telemetry data. For detailed information about the type of data collected by each individual AWS service, see the AWS Documentation topic for the specific service you're interested in.