AWS SDK for Node.js

The official JavaScript implementation of the AWS SDK for Node.js.

Installing

The preferred way to install the AWS SDK for Node.js is to use the npm package manager for Node.js. Simply type the following into a terminal window:

npm install aws-sdk

Please Note: Installing the aws-sdk npm package on Windows may display errors while trying to install the optional dependency for libxmljs. This error can be safely ignored.

Usage

After you've installed the SDK, you can require the AWS package in your node application using require:

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');

Here is a quick example that makes some requests against Amazon S3 with the SDK:

// Load the AWS SDK for Node.js
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');

/**
 * Don't hard-code your credentials!
 * Load them from disk or your environment instead.
 */
// AWS.config.update({accessKeyId: 'AKID', secretAccessKey: 'SECRET'});

// Instead, do this:
AWS.config.loadFromPath('./path/to/credentials.json');

// Set your region for future requests.
AWS.config.update({region: 'us-east-1'});

// Create a bucket and put something in it.
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
s3.client.createBucket({Bucket: 'myBucket'}, function() {
  var data = {Bucket: 'myBucket', Key: 'myKey', Body: 'Hello!'};
  s3.client.putObject(data, function(err, data) {
    if (err) {
      console.log("Error uploading data: ", err);
    } else {
      console.log("Successfully uploaded data to myBucket/myKey");
    }
  });
});

Getting Started Guide

You can find a getting started guide at:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/nodejs/latest/dg/

Supported Services

The SDK currently supports the following services:

Service Name	Class Name
Auto Scaling	AWS.AutoScaling
Amazon CloudWatch	AWS.CloudWatch
Amazon DynamoDB	AWS.DynamoDB
Amazon EC2	AWS.EC2
Amazon Elastic Transcoder	AWS.ElasticTranscoder
Elastic Load Balancing	AWS.ELB
Amazon Elastic MapReduce	AWS.EMR
AWS Identity and Access Management	AWS.IAM
Amazon S3	AWS.S3
Amazon Simple Email Service	AWS.SES
Amazon SimpleDB	AWS.SimpleDB
Amazon Simple Notification Service	AWS.SNS
Amazon Simple Queue Service	AWS.SQS
AWS Security Token Service	AWS.STS

License

This SDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Copyright 2012. Amazon Web Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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