AWS Software Development Kit: What It Is and How Developers Use It
The AWS Software Development Kit , commonly called the AWS SDK, gives developers programmatic access to AWS services from their applications. Instead of manually performing cloud operations through a web console, applications can use SDKs to create resources, upload files, process data, send messages, and interact with many other AWS capabilities. AWS provides SDKs for multiple programming languages and platforms. The exact APIs and features vary by language, but the underlying purpose is consistent: make it easier for application code to communicate with AWS services. One major benefit of an SDK is abstraction. Developers do not have to manually construct every low-level HTTP request. SDK libraries provide service-specific clients, request objects, response handling, authentication support, and common utilities. For example, an application can use an SDK to store user-uploaded files in Amazon S3, publish messages to Amazon SNS, send jobs to Amazon SQS, or interact with databases...