Announcing new AWS SDK for Swift alpha release

We’re excited to announce the alpha release of the new AWS SDK for Swift. Since 2010, AWS Mobile has provided customers with an iOS SDK, written in Objective C. While this SDK has served the iOS community for over a decade, the Swift community has grown in size and expanded to other platforms such as Linux, macOS, Windows, tvOS, watchOS, etc. AWS customers developing in Swift have asked for a native Swift SDK so they can use the language constructs they are used to. Additionally, customers new to Swift and running Swift server side want an SDK that behaves similarly to SDKs they have used in other language environments. With this alpha release, customers can try clients for all of the supported AWS services and provide feedback on ergonomics and usability.

Before we get into the details, it would be remiss of us not to acknowledge the enormous amount of work the community has put in to maintaining not one but two Swift AWS SDKs. On behalf of AWS, I’d like to thank all the maintainers and contributors to the Soto SDK and the AWS Smoke SDK. The AWS Smoke SDK was developed by the Amazon Prime Video Team and will be migrating to the new AWS SDK for Swift. Simon Pilkington, the lead maintainer of the AWS Smoke SDK and a Senior Software Engineer on the Amazon Prime Video Team, tried out the new AWS SDK for Swift and said “Using the Swift programming language has already given our team high developer velocity and strong compiler guarantees that eliminate common programming bugs before they hit production. By providing high quality, best-in-class clients — with strong DNA from previous development — out of the box and fully supported, this new AWS Swift SDK will allow us to focus on our business logic and go even faster.”

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