AWS SDK for Ruby 
The official AWS SDK for Ruby.
Installation
You can install the AWS SDK for Ruby with rubygems:
gem install aws-sdk
If you are using Bundler, we recommend that you express a major version dependency (aws-sdk follows semantic versioning):
gem 'aws-sdk', '~> 1.0'
Basic Configuration
You need to provide your AWS security credentials and choose a default region.
AWS.config(access_key_id: '...', secret_access_key: '...', region: 'us-west-2')
You can also specify these values via ENV:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='...'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='...'
export AWS_REGION='us-west-2'
Basic Usage
Each service provides a service interface and a client.
ec2 = AWS.ec2 #=> AWS::EC2
ec2.client #=> AWS::EC2::Client
The client provides one method for each API operation. The client methods accept a hash of request params and return a response with a hash of response data. The service interfaces provide a higher level abstration built using the client.
Example: list instance tags using a client
resp = ec2.client.describe_tags(filters: [{ name: "resource-id", values: ["i-12345678"] }])
resp[:tag_set].first
#=> {:resource_id=>"i-12345678", :resource_type=>"instance", :key=>"role", :value=>"web"}
Example: list instance tags using the AWS::EC2 higher level interface
ec2.instances['i-12345678'].tags.to_h
#=> {"role"=>"web"}
See the API Documentation for more examples.
Links of Interest
Supported Services
The SDK currently supports the following services:
| Class | API Version | AWS Service Name |
|---|---|---|
| AWS::AutoScaling | 2011-01-01 | Auto Scaling |
| AWS::CloudFormation | 2010-05-15 | AWS CloudFormation |
| AWS::CloudFront | 2013-05-12 | Amazon CloudFront |
| AWS::CloudSearch | 2011-02-01 | Amazon CloudSearch |
| AWS::CloudWatch | 2010-08-01 | Amazon CloudWatch |
| AWS::DataPipeline | 2012-10-29 | AWS Data Pipeline |
| AWS::DirectConnect | 2012-10-25 | AWS Direct Connect |
| AWS::DynamoDB | 2011-12-05 | Amazon DynamoDB |
| 2012-08-10 | ||
| AWS::EC2 | 2013-07-15 | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud |
| AWS::ElastiCache | 2013-06-15 | Amazon ElastiCache |
| AWS::ElasticBeanstalk | 2010-12-01 | AWS Elastic Beanstalk |
| AWS::ElasticTranscoder | 2012-09-25 | Amazon Elastic Transcoder |
| AWS::ELB | 2012-06-01 | Elastic Load Balancing |
| AWS::EMR | 2009-03-31 | Amazon Elastic MapReduce |
| AWS::Glacier | 2012-06-01 | Amazon Glacier |
| AWS::IAM | 2010-05-08 | AWS Identity and Access Management |
| AWS::ImportExport | 2010-06-01 | AWS Import/Export |
| AWS::OpsWorks | 2013-02-18 | AWS OpsWorks |
| AWS::RDS | 2013-05-15 | Amazon Relational Database Service (Beta) |
| AWS::Redshift | 2012-12-01 | Amazon Redshift |
| AWS::Route53 | 2012-12-12 | Amazon Route 53 |
| AWS::S3 | 2006-03-01 | Amazon Simple Storage Service |
| AWS::SimpleDB | 2009-04-15 | Amazon SimpleDB |
| AWS::SimpleEmailService | 2010-12-01 | Amazon Simple E-mail Service |
| AWS::SimpleWorkflow | 2012-01-25 | Amazon Simple Workflow Service |
| AWS::SNS | 2010-03-31 | Amazon Simple Notifications Service |
| AWS::SQS | 2012-11-05 | Amazon Simple Queue Service |
| AWS::StorageGateway | 2012-06-30 | AWS Storage Gateway |
| AWS::STS | 2011-06-15 | AWS Security Token Service |
| AWS::Support | 2013-04-15 | AWS Support |
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
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