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As good as rusoto is, an official SDK is a huge step forward. Many were wondering how AWS could be "commited to Rust" but not provide an official SDK, this looks great!

> We are exploring ways to support multiple Rust async runtimes.

Looking to be runtime agnostic from the start is a good sign, although it can be challenging in async rust's current state. It looks like they aren't tied into much async IO, so it should be relatively easy for this library.

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> As good as rusoto is, an official SDK is a huge step forward.

Yes. It might not be "a huge step forward" in tech terms, but it would be definitely very positive for wider adoption, especially from "enterprises" where all is based on "standards".

TBH it will be a huge step forward in tech terms - Rusoto is maintenance mode, and it's missing functionality. I had to jump into it just the other day to add S3 Select support.

It will be (hopefully), but it isn't yet. This crate doesn't even suppory S3 at all so far.

For sure :) I just have expectations.

Shit man, as long as they do a better job than they did with Amplify.

Not holding my breath there...

Ugh. To anyone contemplating using Amplify I would say:

Rolling your own UI components and straight up using the amazon-cognito-identity-js library and wrapping the bits you need in promises, is far far far less of a headache than using Amplify, unless being tied to Webpack and dealing with disgracefully lazy types is your idea of fun.

That's what we're doing actually. I get the impression that Amplify was designed more for vendor-lock-in than actually solving the problem in the best way

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