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AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio running on Microsoft Windows that makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications using Amazon Web Services

What is AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio?

With the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, you'll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building AWS applications. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is available via the Visual Studio Marketplace and supports Visual Studio 2022. 

Note:
The Toolkit for Visual Studio was also released for Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 versions. However, those versions are no longer supported. For more information, see the Installation and set up topic in this User Guide. Also, the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio does not support Visual Studio for Mac.

  

Getting Started with AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

Benefits

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio allows you to interact with several Amazon Q Developer features from within the IDE. Amazon Q is your generative AI-powered assistant that helps you build faster across the entire software development lifecycle. It provides inline code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, ability to chat using simple natural language prompt, and more.

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio conveniently includes the AWS SDK for .NET, so you can get started building .NET applications on AWS infrastructure services in Visual Studio, including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon DynamoDB.

Easily create new .NET projects with the AWS .NET library by using one of the included project templates, or add the library to an existing project.

Use Visual Studio to build and debug your applications.

Dive into AWS

Create, view, and delete Amazon S3 objects, Amazon DynamoDB items and attributes, Amazon SQS messages, and more.

Add, edit, and delete resources to help build and test your application without leaving the IDE.

Create queries against your data in Amazon DynamoDB and edit the results.

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Use the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio to develop, debug, then deploy your .NET web applications using a web application template. Use Visual Studio to build and run your application locally before deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Learn more »

AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway

Create serverless applications with minimal administration and event-driven scaling with C# and Node.js using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.

Amazon Elastic Container Service

Easily build, register and deploy .NET Core Docker applications to the Amazon Elastic Container Service without ever leaving Visual Studio. Learn More

AWS Explorer

The AWS Explorer lets you manage your AWS resources. Including your Amazon S3 Objects, Amazon DynamoDB Tables and EC2 instances.

CloudFormation Editor

Create new .NET web applications using an application template. Use Visual Studio to build with the convenience of IntelliSense and deploy to AWS with AWS CloudFormation. Learn more

Project Templates

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio includes project templates for AWS Lambda functions, AWS CloudFormation templates and sample projects showing how to use various AWS services.

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