"Amazon.Lambda.RuntimeSupport" .NET Core with AWS Lambda (for Microsoft Developers)
Continuing to support Microsoft's .NET Core initiative, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) this week opened up more .NET Core options for working with AWS Lambda, a service that facilitates serverless, event-driven computing. .NET Core is Microsoft's modernization of the ageing, Windows-only .NET Framework, taking it open source and cross-platform in a more modularized approach. The company has advised developers that .NET Core is the future and recommends it for all new development projects because it will be getting new features and functionality going forward, while .NET Framework will be relegated to security and maintenance updates. In announcing a new Amazon.Lambda.RuntimeSupport library, AWS made it possible for developers to create their own custom runtimes in order to use more versions of .NET Core beyond the version that's currently built-in to the AWS Lambda service. Previously, developers could only use Long Term Support (LTS) versions of .NET Core