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The AWS SDK for Ruby is available from RubyGems. With V3 modularization, you should pick the specific AWS service gems to install.

gem 'aws-sdk-s3', '~> 1'
gem 'aws-sdk-ec2', '~> 1'

Alternatively, the aws-sdk gem contains every available AWS service gem. This gem is very large; it is recommended to use it only as a quick way to migrate from V2 or if you depend on many AWS services.

gem 'aws-sdk', '~> 3'

Please use a pessimistic version constraint on the major version when depending on service gems.

You will need to configure credentials and a region, either in configuration files or environment variables, to make API calls. It is recommended that you provide these via your environment. This makes it easier to rotate credentials and it keeps your secrets out of source control.

The SDK searches the following locations for credentials:

• ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'] and ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
• The shared credentials ini file at ~/.aws/credentials
  • Credential options supported in this file are:
    • Static Credentials (aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, aws_session_token)
    • Assume Role Web Identity Credentials (web_identity_token_file, role_arn, source_profile)
    • Assume Role Credentials (role_arn, source_profile)
    • Process Credentials (credential_process)
  • Unless ENV['AWS_SDK_CONFIG_OPT_OUT'] is set, the shared configuration ini file at ~/.aws/config will also be parsed for credentials.
• From an instance profile when running on EC2 or from the ECS credential provider when running in an ECS container with that feature enabled.

Shared configuration is loaded only a single time, and credentials are provided statically at client creation time. Shared credentials do not refresh.

The SDK searches the following locations for a region:

• ENV['AWS_REGION']
• ENV['AMAZON_REGION']
• ENV['AWS_DEFAULT_REGION']
• Unless ENV['AWS_SDK_CONFIG_OPT_OUT'] is set, the shared configuration files (~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config) will also be checked for a region selection.

The region is used to construct an SSL endpoint. If you need to connect to a non-standard endpoint, you may specify the :endpoint option.

You can also configure default credentials and the region via the Aws.config hash. The Aws.config hash takes precedence over environment variables.

require 'aws-sdk-core'

Aws.config.update(
  region: 'us-west-2',
  credentials: Aws::Credentials.new('akid', 'secret')
)

Valid region and credentials options are:

• :region - A string like us-west-2. See this page for a list of supported regions by service.
• :credentials - An instance of one of the following classes:
  • Aws::Credentials
  • Aws::AssumeRoleWebIdentityCredentials
  • Aws::AssumeRoleCredentials
  • Aws::SharedCredentials
  • Aws::ProcessCredentials
  • Aws::InstanceProfileCredentials
  • Aws::ECSCredentials
  • Aws::CognitoIdentityCredentials

You may also pass configuration options directly to Client and Resource constructors. These options take precedence over the environment and Aws.config defaults. A :profile Client option can also be used to choose a specific profile defined in your configuration file.

# using a credentials object
ec2 = Aws::EC2::Client.new(region: 'us-west-2', credentials: credentials)

# using a profile name
ec2 = Aws::EC2::Client.new(profile: 'my_profile')

Please take care to never commit credentials to source control. We strongly recommended loading credentials from an external source.

require 'aws-sdk'
require 'json'

creds = JSON.load(File.read('secrets.json'))
Aws.config[:credentials] = Aws::Credentials.new(
  creds['AccessKeyId'],
  creds['SecretAccessKey']
)

For more information on how to configure credentials, see the developer guide for configuring AWS SDK for Ruby.

Construct a service client to make API calls. Each client provides a 1-to-1 mapping of methods to API operations. Refer to the API documentation for a complete list of available methods.

# list buckets in Amazon S3
s3 = Aws::S3::Client.new
resp = s3.list_buckets
resp.buckets.map(&:name)
#=> ["bucket-1", "bucket-2", ...]

API methods accept a hash of additional request parameters and return structured response data.

# list the first two objects in a bucket
resp = s3.list_objects(bucket: 'aws-sdk', max_keys: 2)
resp.contents.each do |object|
  puts "#{object.key} => #{object.etag}"
end

Many AWS operations limit the number of results returned with each response. To make it easy to get the next page of results, every AWS response object is enumerable:

# yields one response object per API call made, this will enumerate
# EVERY object in the named bucket
s3.list_objects(bucket:'aws-sdk').each do |response|
  puts response.contents.map(&:key)
end

If you prefer to control paging yourself, response objects have helper methods that control paging:

# make a request that returns a truncated response
resp = s3.list_objects(bucket: 'aws-sdk')

resp.last_page? #=> false
resp.next_page? #=> true
resp = resp.next_page # send a request for the next response page
resp = resp.next_page until resp.last_page?

Waiters are utility methods that poll for a particular state. To invoke a waiter, call #wait_until on a client:

begin
  ec2.wait_until(:instance_running, instance_ids:['i-12345678'])
  puts "instance running"
rescue Aws::Waiters::Errors::WaiterFailed => error
  puts "failed waiting for instance running: #{error.message}"
end

Waiters have sensible default polling intervals and maximum attempts. You can configure these per call to #wait_until. You can also register callbacks that are triggered before each polling attempt and before waiting. See the API documentation for more examples and for a list of supported waiters per service.

Resource interfaces are object oriented classes that represent actual resources in AWS. Resource interfaces built on top of API clients and provide additional functionality.

Only a few services implement a resource interface. They are defined by hand in JSON and have limitations. Please use the Client API instead.

s3 = Aws::S3::Resource.new

# reference an existing bucket by name
bucket = s3.bucket('aws-sdk')

# enumerate every object in a bucket
bucket.objects.each do |obj|
  puts "#{obj.key} => #{obj.etag}"
end

# batch operations, delete objects in batches of 1k
bucket.objects(prefix: '/tmp-files/').delete

# single object operations
obj = bucket.object('hello')
obj.put(body:'Hello World!')
obj.etag
obj.delete

The aws-sdk gem ships with a REPL that provides a simple way to test the Ruby SDK. You can access the REPL by running aws-v3.rb from the command line.

$ aws-v3.rb
[1] pry(Aws)> ec2.describe_instances.reservations.first.instances.first
[Aws::EC2::Client 200 0.216615 0 retries] describe_instances()
<struct
 instance_id="i-1234567",
 image_id="ami-7654321",
 state=<struct  code=16, name="running">,
 ...>

You can enable HTTP wire logging by setting the verbose flag:

$ aws-v3.rb -v

In the REPL, every service class has a helper that returns a new client object. Simply downcase the service module name for the helper:

• s3 => #<Aws::S3::Client>
• ec2 => #<Aws::EC2::Client>
• etc

The AWS SDK for Ruby has optional functionality that requires the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) bindings to be included as a dependency with your application. This functionality includes:

• Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
• CRC-32c support for S3 Additional Checksums

If the required AWS Common Runtime dependency is not installed you will receive an error indicating that the required dependency is missing to use the associated functionality. To install this dependency follow the provided instructions.

AWS CRT bindings are in developer preview and are available in the the aws-crt gem. You can install them by adding the aws-crt gem to your Gemfile.

Sigv4a is an extension to Sigv4 that allows signatures that are valid in more than one region. Sigv4a is required to use some services/operations such as S3 Multi-Region Access Points and Amazon EventBridge Global Endpoints. Currently sigv4a requires the aws-crt gem. The aws-sigv4 signers will automatically use the CRT provided signers with support for sigv4a when the aws-crt gem is available.

gem 'aws-sdk-s3', '~> 1'
gem 'aws-sigv4', '1.4.1.crt'

Please use any of these resources for getting help:

• Ask a question on Github Discussions.
• Ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it with aws-sdk-ruby.
• Open a support ticket with AWS Support.

For information about maintenance and support for SDK major versions and their underlying dependencies, see the following in the AWS SDKs and Tools Shared Configuration and Credentials Reference Guide:

• AWS SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy
• AWS SDKs and Tools Version Support Matrix

If you encounter a bug or have a feature request, we would like to hear about it. Search the existing issues and try to make sure your problem doesn’t already exist before opening a new issue.

The GitHub issues are intended for bug reports and feature requests. For help and questions with using aws-sdk-ruby please make use of the resources listed in the Getting Help section.

This project uses semantic versioning. You can safely express a dependency on a major version and expect all minor and patch versions to be backwards compatible.

A CHANGELOG can be found at each gem's root path (i.e. aws-sdk-s3 can be found at gems/aws-sdk-s3/CHANGELOG.md). The CHANGELOG is also accessible via the RubyGems.org page under "LINKS" section.

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