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aws-sdk-js

AWS SDK for JavaScript v2 (End-of-Life as of 09/08/2025). The AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 in the browser and Node.js is available here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3

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What it is

AWS SDK for JavaScript v2 (End-of-Life as of 09/08/2025). The AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 in the browser and Node.js is available here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-12-05 02:15:17 UTC to 2021-11-22 07:06:40 UTC.

0123452012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

11 sources
zbjornson·Jul 9, 2016
> The SDK situation is a mess compared to AWS. Google's complicated style of authentication is particularly onerous on developers. How so? For us, the JS SDK for GCP has been way better than AWS's, and authentication "just works" if you're running from within GCP. With AWS we hit a pesky, wide-spread bug with random authentication failures [0] that hasn't been addressed in almost a year. [0] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/692
In Our nightmare on Amazon ECS
alessioalex·Dec 5, 2012
At the moment I'm using https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum It's fantastic and supports a billion services already, besides providing tons of useful examples. Before the AWS SDK matures, I don't think I'll be moving away from this library (even then I'm not sure). What I don't like in this SDK it that it has its own promise thing. I just want to be able to write in a callback style, and IF I don't want that I can easily make my own abstractions. (more about this here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/2 ) Another thing to be considered before making the "final" release would be to support more services: Route53, SNS, SES etc.
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