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# AWS SDK for Go
aws-sdk-go is the official AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
Checkout our [release notes](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/releases) for information about the latest bug fixes, updates, and features added to the SDK.
## Installing
If you are using Go 1.5 with the `GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1` vendoring flag, or 1.6 and higher you can use the following command to retrieve the SDK. The SDK's non-testing dependencies will be included and are vendored in the `vendor` folder.
go get -u github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go
Otherwise if your Go environment does not have vendoring support enabled, or you do not want to include the vendored SDK's dependencies you can use the following command to retrieve the SDK and its non-testing dependencies using `go get`.
go get -u github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/...
go get -u github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/...
If you're looking to retrieve just the SDK without any dependencies use the following command.
go get -d github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/
These two processes will still include the `vendor` folder and it should be deleted if its not going to be used by your environment.
Please use these community resources for getting help. We use the GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests.
* Ask a question on [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) and tag it with the [`aws-sdk-go`](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-sdk-go) tag.
* Come join the AWS SDK for Go community chat on [gitter](https://gitter.im/aws/aws-sdk-go).
* Open a support ticket with [AWS Support](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awssupport/latest/user/getting-started.html).
If you encounter a bug with the AWS SDK for Go we would like to hear about it. Search the [existing issues](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/issues) and see if others are also experiencing the issue before opening a new issue. Please include the version of AWS SDK for Go, Go language, and OS you’re using. Please also include repro case when appropriate.
The GitHub issues are intended for bug reports and feature requests. For help and questions with using AWS SDK for GO please make use of the resources listed in the [Getting Help](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#getting-help) section. Keeping the list of open issues lean will help us respond in a timely manner.
## Reference Documentation
[`Getting Started Guide`](https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/) - This document is a general introduction how to configure and make requests with the SDK. If this is your first time using the SDK, this documentation and the API documentation will help you get started. This document focuses on the syntax and behavior of the SDK. The [Service Developer Guide](https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/) will help you get started using specific AWS services.
[`SDK API Reference Documentation`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/) - Use this document to look up all API operation input and output parameters for AWS services supported by the SDK. The API reference also includes documentation of the SDK, and examples how to using the SDK, service client API operations, and API operation require parameters.
[`Service Developer Guide`](https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/) - Use this documentation to learn how to interface with an AWS service. These are great guides both, if you're getting started with a service, or looking for more information on a service. You should not need this document for coding, though in some cases, services may supply helpful samples that you might want to look out for.
[`SDK Examples`](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/tree/master/example) - Included in the SDK's repo are a several hand crafted examples using the SDK features and AWS services.
## Overview of SDK's Packages
The SDK is composed of two main components, SDK core, and service clients.
The SDK core packages are all available under the aws package at the root of
the SDK. Each client for a supported AWS service is available within its own
package under the service folder at the root of the SDK.
* aws - SDK core, provides common shared types such as Config, Logger,
and utilities to make working with API parameters easier.
* awserr - Provides the error interface that the SDK will use for all
errors that occur in the SDK's processing. This includes service API
response errors as well. The Error type is made up of a code and message.
Cast the SDK's returned error type to awserr.Error and call the Code
method to compare returned error to specific error codes. See the package's
documentation for additional values that can be extracted such as RequestID.
* credentials - Provides the types and built in credentials providers
the SDK will use to retrieve AWS credentials to make API requests with.
Nested under this folder are also additional credentials providers such as
stscreds for assuming IAM roles, and ec2rolecreds for EC2 Instance roles.
* endpoints - Provides the AWS Regions and Endpoints metadata for the SDK.
Use this to lookup AWS service endpoint information such as which services
are in a region, and what regions a service is in. Constants are also provided
for all region identifiers, e.g UsWest2RegionID for "us-west-2".
* session - Provides initial default configuration, and load
configuration from external sources such as environment and shared
credentials file.
* request - Provides the API request sending, and retry logic for the SDK.
This package also includes utilities for defining your own request
retryer, and configuring how the SDK processes the request.
* service - Clients for AWS services. All services supported by the SDK are
available under this folder.
## How to Use the SDK's AWS Service Clients
The SDK includes the Go types and utilities you can use to make requests to
AWS service APIs. Within the service folder at the root of the SDK you'll find
a package for each AWS service the SDK supports. All service clients follows
a common pattern of creation and usage.
When creating a client for an AWS service you'll first need to have a Session
value constructed. The Session provides shared configuration that can be shared
between your service clients. When service clients are created you can pass
in additional configuration via the aws.Config type to override configuration
provided by in the Session to create service client instances with custom
configuration.
Once the service's client is created you can use it to make API requests the
AWS service. These clients are safe to use concurrently.
## Configuring the SDK
In the AWS SDK for Go, you can configure settings for service clients, such
as the log level and maximum number of retries. Most settings are optional;
however, for each service client, you must specify a region and your credentials.
The SDK uses these values to send requests to the correct AWS region and sign
requests with the correct credentials. You can specify these values as part
of a session or as environment variables.
See the SDK's [configuration guide][config_guide] for more information.
See the [session][session_pkg] package documentation for more information on how to use Session
with the SDK.
See the [Config][config_typ] type in the [aws][aws_pkg] package for more information on configuration