Document history
This topic describes significant changes to the documentation for the AWS Tools for PowerShell.
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Change | Description | Date |
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IAM best practices updates | Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | September 8, 2023 |
Added the | March 9, 2023 | |
Added information about support for the ClientConfig parameter. | October 28, 2022 | |
Added notes about retiring EC2-Classic. | July 26, 2022 | |
AWS Tools for PowerShell Version 4 | Added information about version 4, including installation instructions for both Windows and Linux/macOS, and a migration topic that describes the differences from version 3 and introduces new features. | November 21, 2019 |
AWS Tools for PowerShell 3.3.563 | Added information about how to install and use the preview version of the
| October 18, 2019 |
AWS Tools for PowerShell 3.3.343.0 | Added information to the Using the AWS Tools for PowerShell section introducing the AWS Lambda Tools for PowerShell for PowerShell Core developers to build AWS Lambda functions. | September 11, 2018 |
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 3.1.31.0 | Added information to the Getting Started section about new cmdlets that use Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to support configuring federated identity for users. | December 1, 2015 |
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 2.3.19 | Added information to the Cmdlets Discovery and Aliases section about the new
| February 5, 2015 |
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 1.1.1.0 | Collection output from cmdlets is always enumerated to the PowerShell pipeline. Automatic support for pageable service calls. New $AWSHistory shell variable collects service responses and optionally service requests. AWSRegion instances use Region field instead of SystemName to aid pipelining. Remove-S3Bucket supports a -DeleteObjects switch option. Fixed usability issue with Set-AWSCredentials. Initialize-AWSDefaults reports from where it obtained credentials and region data. Stop-EC2Instance accepts Amazon.EC2.Model.Reservation instances as input. Generic List<T> parameter types replaced with array types (T[]). Cmdlets that delete or terminate resources prompt for confirmation prior to deletion. Write-S3Object supports in-line text content to upload to Amazon S3. | May 15, 2013 |
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 1.0.1.0 | The install location of the Tools for Windows PowerShell module has changed so that environments
using Windows PowerShell version 3 can take advantage of auto-loading. The
module and supporting files are now installed to an
| December 21, 2012 |
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 1.0.0.0 | Initial release | December 6, 2012 |