With the aim to allow developers to build Microsoft .Net applications which provide access to the AWS platform for computing in the cloud, Amazon Web Services, a company of Amazon.com has just introduced a software development kit.
According to Amazon, their SDK for .Net includes the AWS .Net Library, featuring “developer-friendly” APIs for .Net which has the ability to hide low-level plumbing associated with programming for the AWS cloud. Some functions of APIs include authentication, request retries and error-handling. At this time, developers are able to download the SDK together with Visual Studio project templates, C# code samples and documentation.
It seems coincident when Amazon released its SDK at them same time as Microsoft to promote its own Windows Azure cloud platform. The SDK is claimed to be offered in response to customer demand, not to Azure.
Amazon is proud of that its SDK can help developers build solutions for AWS infrastructure services, including Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), and Amazon SimpleDB.
Amazon boasts that its SDK is even easier than Windows for developers to build .Net applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud.
To use AWS SDK, developers should have at least version 2.0 of .Net Framework. The SDK can be used with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition or later, Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition or Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.
