AWS provides SDKs for different programming languages in order to interact with AWS using some programming languages. AWS SDKs provide privilege to access and manage the AWS services using many programming languages. AWS SDKs provide a platform using the application programming interfaces (APIs) for accessing the many popular AWS services.
These are some programming languages that provide AWS SDKs to interact with AWS programmatically:
In the following sections, we will discuss AWS SDKs for the above-mentioned programming languages.
Java
Java is a high-class object-oriented programming language that is used to develop Desktop applications, Web applications, Web servers, Middleware applications, and embedded systems. Using Java, we can also interact with AWS to perform different actions.
The AWS SDK for Java provides the APIs to interact with different AWS services. There are two types of AWS SDKs for Java to interact with Amazon Web Services programmatically:
- AWS SDK for Java
- AWS IoT Device SDK for Java
AWS SDK for Java
The AWS SDK for Java 2.x is only supported by the Java 8+ version and above. It provides full control of building Java based applications that works alongside many amazon web services like EC2, S3, lambda function, dynamodb and many more. In order to get started with AWS SDK for Java, you can visit the following Developer guide for AWS SDK for Java 2.x by AWS:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/home.html
AWS IoT Device SDK for Java
The AWS IoT Device SDK for Java is used to interact with the AWS IoT platform using Java. It accesses the AWS IoT platform using the MQTT over the WebSocket or MQTT protocols. You can learn more about the AWS IoT Device SDK for Java by visiting the following link:
https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-java/blob/master/README.md
Python
Python is a high-level programming language with a simpler syntax compared to the other programming languages. It is widely used in developing APIs, data analysis, machine learning, and writing automation scripts.
We can use the python programming language to interact with different AWS services using AWS SDK for Python.
These are the different AWS SDKs for Python to interact with different AWS domains using Python:
- AWS SDK for Python
- AWS IoT Device SDK for Python
- AWS Data Wrangler
AWS SDK for Python
The boto3, AWS SDK, for Python can be used in order to interact with AWS services like EC2 and S3. The boto3 is only supported by python 2.7+ and 3.4+ versions. It can be installed by using the pip, a python package manager, using the following command:
The boto3 provides full support to develop the application in Python programming language along with the use of amazon web services like EC2, S3, and many other services. Before using any AWS service in your program, you need to import that service. After importing the service, you can interact with it using a python program. Visit the following documentation to learn more about boto3 in Python:
https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html
AWS IoT Device SDK for python
The AWS IoT Device SDK for Python is used to interact with the AWS IoT platform using Python programming language. It accesses the AWS IoT platform using the MQTT over the WebSocket or MQTT protocols. You can learn more about the AWS IoT Device SDK for Python by visiting the following link:
https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python/blob/master/README.rst
AWS Data Wrangler
The awswrangler package can be used in python in order to interact with AWS Athena, Amazon Glue, Timestream, Chime and some other services. It uses pandas, apache arrow, and boto3 under the hood to interact with AWS. You can read more about the awswrangler by visiting the following link:
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-data-wrangler#quick-start
JavaScript
JavaScript is a scripting or programming language that can be used on the Web to implement the complex logics on Web pages by modifying the HTML and CSS. Node.js, a JavaScript runtime, is also used to write server side logic. There are multiple frameworks of Node.js that can be used to write the server side logic.
JavaScript can be used to interact with different AWS services using AWS SDKs for JavaScript. This is the list of different SDKs available for JavaScript:
- AWS SDK for JavaScript
- AWS Mobile SDK for JavaScript
- AWS IoT Device SDK for JavaScript
AWS SDK for JavaScript
The AWS SDK for JavaScript is used to interact with AWS services from the application using JavaScript. You can interact with different AWS services from the application frontend as well as application backend.
JavaScript provides different client packages to interact with different AWS services from the frontend of the application (browser) like you can interact with DynamoDB by just installing the @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb package in your code. You can get a list of all the client packages and how these packages can be used in your code by visiting the following link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/v3/latest/index.html#getting-started
React native is a framework developed and maintained by Facebook and the community to build the UI for the mobile applications. We can also use AWS SDK to work with different AWS services from the React native code. Visit the following documentation to learn more about AWS Mobile SDK for JavaScript:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v3/developer-guide/getting-started-react-native.html
AWS Mobile SDK for JavaScript
JavaScript provides an SDK to interact with AWS Amplify service to allow the frontend and mobile developers to create the full stack application. You can interact with AWS amplify from different frameworks of JavaScript like React, React Native, Vue.js, and etc. You can read more about AWS Mobile SDK for JavaScript by visiting the following documentation:
https://docs.amplify.aws/start/
AWS IoT Device SDK for JavaScript
The AWS IoT Device SDK for JavaScript is used to interact with the AWS IoT platform using JavaScript programming language from frontend as well as backend of the application. It accesses the AWS IoT platform using the MQTT over the WebSocket or MQTT protocols. You can learn more about the AWS IoT Device SDK for JavaScript by visiting the following link:
https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js/blob/master/README.md
PHP
PHP is a programming language that was originally built for server side programming. It is mostly used to build dynamic websites by writing server side logic. You can interact with different AWS services by using the AWS SDK for php that is aws/aws-sdk-php.
In order to use the AWS SDK for php, you must use the php version 5.5.0 or later. You can install the aws/aws-sdk-php package by using the composer. After installing the AWS SDK, you can import the package and can use it to interact with AWS services. You can learn more about AWS SDK for php (aws/aws-sdk-php) by visiting the following link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-php/v3/developer-guide/welcome.html
C++
C++ is a low level object oriented programming language that is used to build large scale projects. It can also be used to build Games, GUI applications, and Web browsers. It is known as the DNA of modern computers. You can also interact with AWS using AWS SDK for C++ in your application.
CMake is the AWS SDK for C++ programming language that is widely used to interact with AWS services. It is only supported by the version C++ 11 and above. Before using the amazon web services, you must add the AWS SDK into the CMake file. Alternatively, the Vcpkg package manager can be used for this purpose. There are other package managers also available like NuGet but Vcpkg is the recommended one. You can learn more about AWS SDK for C++ by visiting the following link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/welcome.html
Node.js
Node.js is a runtime version of JavaScript and is used to build the backend tier of the applications. There are many famous Node.js frameworks like express, fastify , and etc. that can be used to create server side logic. We can interact with AWS services from Node.js by using the AWS SDK for Node.js that is aws-sdk.
The AWS SDK for Node.js provides the environment to the developers to create and manage the different AWs services like EC2 and S3 and many others. You need to install the Node.js and npm. Then, you can install the aws-sdk for node.js using npm. Npm is the node.js package manager. You can learn more about using the AWS SDK using Node.js by visiting the following link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v3/developer-guide/getting-started-nodejs.html
.NET
.NET is an open source developer platform developed by Microsoft and can be used to build Desktop applications, web applications, games, cloud-native applications, and IoT devices. The .NET can also be used to work with different AWS services by using the AWS SDK for .NET.
This is the list of different SDKs available in .NET to interact with AWS:
- AWS SDK for .NET
- AWS Unity Mobile SDK
- AWS Xamarin Mobile SDK
- AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps
The AWS SDK for .NET simplifies the development of .NET applications by providing the amazon web services like S3, EC2, dynamodB, amazon SNS, and many more. It makes it easier for .NET developers to use the amazon web services by just adding some libraries. There are some tools required to start the AWS .NET SDK. You must install Microsoft .NET core version 2.1,3.1 or above to get started with AWS SDK for .NET. Visit the following documentation to learn more about the AWS SDK for .NET:
https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-net/
Ruby
Ruby is an open source, high level, and general purpose scripting language used in Web development, static site generation, web servers, web scraping, and DevOps automating. The Ruby programming language can also be used to work with different AWS services using an SDK. There is an SDK available for AWS in ruby that is aws-sdk to interact with AWS services.
The AWS SDK for ruby makes it easier for developers to build the application with almost all Amazon web services. The SDK is only supported by the ruby version 1.9 or above. To get started with the AWS SDK for ruby, first you need to install the SDK using the following command:
After installing the AWS SDK, you can simply import the SDK. Then, start interacting with different AWS services. To learn more about AWS SDK for ruby, you can always visit the following documentation:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/v3/developer-guide/welcome.html
Go
Go is an open source general purpose programming language developed by Google used to build different applications like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and many other cloud services. Go can also be used to interact with AWS services by using AWS SDK for Go.
The AWS SDK for go requires the version of Go 1.15 or above. In order to get the detailed documentation of how we can use the AWS SDK for Go programming language to interact with AWS services, you can visit the following documentation:
https://aws.github.io/aws-sdk-go-v2/docs/getting-started/
Conclusion
In this article, we discussed how we can interact with AWS services programmatically using different programming languages. Almost all major programming languages provide AWS SDK to access AWS services programmatically. We also studied how the AWS SDKs make it easier to use APIs and help the developer to integrate the different applications in different programming languages with amazon web services.
