Document history for the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide
The following table describes important changes in each release of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Updating user guide topic to include updated Lambda features in the toolkit. | July 17, 2025 | |
Added new AWS Lambda remote debugging topic to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide. | July 17, 2025 | |
Added new AWS Lambda console to IDE topic to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide. | July 17, 2025 | |
Updates to AWS Step Functions content and added support for Workflow Studio | Added updates to existing content for AWS Step Functions and User Guide topic for AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio, in support of feature launch. | March 6, 2025 |
Added new AWS Serverless Land topic to the AWS Application Builder TOC. | March 6, 2025 | |
Lists of endpoints and resources that must be allow listed to access all service and features in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and Amazon Q for VS Code extensions. | February 28, 2025 | |
Added documentation support for launching an AWS App Runner service from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry node, in the AWS Toolkit. | February 6, 2025 | |
Added new Amazon DocumentDB topic to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide. | February 6, 2025 | |
Support for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service has been added to the toolkit. | January 31, 2025 | |
Added new user guide topic for AWS Documents. | January 20, 2025 | |
Added new subtopic to support the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail feature in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. | December 15, 2024 | |
Added new AWS Application Builder topic to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide. | October 30, 2024 | |
AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer. | October 3, 2024 | |
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer updates | Updated IAM Access Analyzer content to include new API references. | July 10, 2024 |
Added new user guide topic for IAM Access Analyzer. | May 23, 2024 | |
Authorization flow was updated to reflect changes to the auth process and the separation of Amazon Q from the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. | April 30, 2024 | |
As of April 30th 2024, CodeWhisperer is now part of Amazon Q and Amazon Q is available as an extension for VS Code. | April 30, 2024 | |
Updated content covering UI changes to support VPC in Dev Environments. | January 21, 2024 | |
Added new Infrastructure Composer topic to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide. | November 28, 2023 | |
Updated content to cover IAM Identity Center support for CodeCatalyst and Dev Environments. | November 17, 2023 | |
Updated content with download links for VS Code and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. | November 1, 2023 | |
Added new Amazon Redshift topic to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code User Guide. | October 17, 2023 | |
Authorization flow updated to focus on service-specific authentication methods. | September 29, 2023 | |
Created a new userguide describing how to Create a CloudFormation template using the Toolkit for VS Code | December 17, 2021 | |
Updated existing text for "Preview Machine State" to "Render graph" in order to better match the UI. | December 14, 2021 | |
Created user guide for Amazon Elastic Container Service Exec | This is an overview of the Amazon ECS Exec. | December 13, 2021 |
Created user guide for the AWS IoT Toolkit for VS Code service | This user guide is intended to help you get started using the AWS IoT service for Toolkit for VS Code. | November 22, 2021 |
Added support for turning on experimental features for AWS services. | October 14, 2021 | |
Added support for accessing resource types along with interface options to create, edit, and delete resources. | October 14, 2021 | |
Overview of the Amazon ECR service for AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code | Added an overview and walkthrough for the features and functions of the Amazon ECR service that are accessible in VS Code | October 14, 2021 |
You can now run serverless applications in ARM64-based emulated environments as well as in x86_64-based environments. | October 1, 2021 | |
Added support for running AWS SAM applications on ARM64 platform | September 30, 2021 | |
Per customer feedback, updated formatting for Node.js/ TypeScript. | August 12, 2021 | |
Added support for AWS App Runner to AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. | August 11, 2021 | |
Added support for debugging local Go functions. | May 10, 2021 | |
Added support for debugging local Java functions. | April 22, 2021 | |
Added YAML support for AWS Step Functions. | March 4, 2021 | |
Added support for debugging local Amazon API Gateway resources. | December 1, 2020 | |
Added support for Amazon API Gateway. | December 1, 2020 | |
Added support for Lambda container images with serverless applications. | December 1, 2020 | |
Added support for Systems Manager Automation documents. | September 30, 2020 | |
Added support for CloudWatch Logs. | August 24, 2020 | |
Added support for Amazon S3. | July 30, 2020 | |
Added support for AWS Step Functions. | March 31, 2020 | |
Added security content. | February 6, 2020 | |
Added support for Amazon EventBridge Schemas | December 1, 2019 | |
Preview release of the AWS CDK service. | November 25, 2019 | |
Added information about using an external credential process to obtain AWS credentials. | September 25, 2019 | |
IntelliSense support was added for working with Amazon ECS task Definition files. | September 24, 2019 | |
Release for general availability. | July 11, 2019 | |
Updated the document structure for clarity and ease of use. | July 3, 2019 | |
Added information about installing language SDKs to support various toolchains. | June 12, 2019 | |
Added information about configuring various toolchains. | June 12, 2019 | |
Initial Release | Initial release of the user guide for AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. | March 28, 2019 |
