Exploring the AWS Toolkit
The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension designed to enhance the development experience for creating, testing, and deploying .NET applications on WS. In this section, we will explore how this extension simplifies working with AWS services within Visual Studio.
First, we need to install the extension by going to Extension Manager through the top-bar menu (Extension | Manage extensions…) and searching for AWS Toolkit with Amazon Q.
Figure 8.19 – AWS Toolkit with Amazon Q
As with each installation of new Visual Studio extensions, we need to close our instance after we have clicked on the Install button to launch the begin the modification.
Key AWS services that are integrated through the toolkit include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazone Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon DynamoDB.
Once the extension is installed, we can start to configure it through the top-bar...
