AWS .NET SDKs

One of the great advantages AWS offers over traditional, on-premises resources is that its services can be accessed through REST APIs, enabling integration from any programming or scripting environment capable of stringing together HTTPS requests and sending them over the internet.

Although REST APIs are flexible, it’s easier for developers to work in their native language than to work with REST APIs, and the AWS SDK for .NET helps developers get started quickly by providing native .NET APIs to the AWS Services. Calling an AWS Service is as easy as calling a method on an object using the SDK.

The AWS SDK for .NET is distributed as multiple NuGet packages, and contains assemblies for .NET Standard 2.0, .NET Framework 3.5, and .NET Framework 4.x.

As the standard for .NET package management, NuGet is the preferred option for installing the SDK, and provides a number of service-specific packages, such as AWSSDK.EC2 or AWSSDK.S3, each of which depends on the AWSSDK.Core package, which is automatically installed when you reference a service package in the NuGet Package Manager.

If you’re working with older versions of .NET that don’t support .NET Standard 2.0, then the versions of the SDK prior to v3.5 also contain Portable Class Library assemblies, and the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity and AWS Mobile SDK for .NET and Xamarin are available for older versions of Unity and Xamarin.