awslabs/aws-sdk-rust

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3336 stars · 288 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official AWS SDK for Rust, providing one generated crate per AWS service plus a shared aws-config crate for credential and region loading. It is generated from Smithy models and built for async usage with Tokio.

Use cases

• call AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, or SQS from Rust
• load AWS credentials and region configuration in a Rust app
• build Rust applications on AWS Lambda or EC2
• manage AWS resources programmatically
• upload and download files from S3 in Rust
• use IAM roles and web identity tokens for auth in Rust

When to choose

• you are writing Rust code that needs to interact with AWS services
• you want an officially maintained, auto-generated SDK with per-service crates
• you need async-first AWS clients with Tokio
• you want the default credential provider chain (env vars, files, ECS, EC2 metadata)

When to avoid

• you use a language other than Rust
• you need a lightweight hand-written client for a single AWS service
• you require a synchronous (blocking) API without Tokio
• you target a Rust version older than the SDK's MSRV

Facets

library · maturity stable

sdk http-client auth database-driver serialization cloud-computing developer-tools apis backend rust cross-platform cloud aws smithy async tokio cloud-sdk code-generated

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