Norm Johanson

I work at @awscloud, making .NET great on AWS. All opinions expressed are my own.

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

So may exciting things happening in the Aspire space. What do you want to see with AWS and Aspire?

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

Aspire really lights up your developer experience. Today is a huge milestone as we have GA support for Typescript.

If you haven’t given it a try yet, take 5 mins to play with it!

Super easy to get started:

https://t.co/KikC1uObWN

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@ICooper Sadly I don't know of a .NET native implementation. My team has talked about it several times over the years but something always comes up. I'll try and revisit the issue again.

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@nicktates @nickchapsas @davidfowl If you are using our AWS integration for Aspire I would love to hear any feedback you might have.

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

Now getting motivated listening to Braveheart. Hopefully the talk goes better than the end for William Wallace.

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

Prepping today for my Aspire + AWS talk on Monday at #aspireconf. Feels ominous prepping while listening to Star Wars Revenge of the Sith soundtrack. https://t.co/zSRhkP1hpD

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

Excited to show off what we have been building for AWS and Aspire

[Aspire 💫 @aspiredotdev]

Looking forward to this #AspireConf session with @socketnorm - 🚀 Building and deploying with Aspire and #AWS
March 23 | 3:00-3:30 PM PT
⌚Mark your calendar: https://t.co/oCeNlfWNU4

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

Big update for AWS and Aspire. The Lambda support is out of preview and introducing new preview support for deploying to AWS. https://t.co/UBLuXc8CXf

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@awsdevelopers AWS

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@wdolek Here is a write up on why we didn't use nullable-ref types for V4. Nothing against nullable-ref types but due to the type of changes we scoped V4 to be and the programming model of the SDK it was a hard call. https://t.co/c5cDjrf89a

[Clare Liguori @clare_liguori]

Shipping shipping shipping in Kiro this week

🚢 New model: Claude Opus 4.6
🚢 ACP support: Kiro in JetBrains, Eclipse, Zed, emacs, neovim
🚢 Agent skills support
🚢 Custom subagents
🚢 Specialized refactoring agent tools
🚢 New tool use hooks

https://t.co/sVOXEiGC5n

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@leakyheap A heads up for you, I have a PR to add experimental Aspire AWS deployment to our AWS Aspire integration. Love for you to take a look if you have any feedback. https://t.co/M2aWSfIm2W

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@nicoventilatte Hey Nico, I don't actually know much about the .NET Transform tool. Maybe @davidpallmann can help you out.

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

Starting the year strong at AWS for .NET with .NET 10 support Lambda. A new feature we added for .NET 10 is support for writing C# file based Lambda functions. Would love to hear feedback on the new support.

https://t.co/g5bMAeDMyn

[Mukesh Murugan @iammukeshm]

AWS local development for .NET has always been a juggling act: Lambdas here, DynamoDB there, SNS/SQS somewhere else—and a bunch of scripts and tools holding everything together.

With .NET Aspire 13, that story changes. This is seriously awesome for .NET Developers working with AWS Resources.

I just published a new hands-on guide where we use Aspire and the AWS Aspire Hosting package to build a serverless notifications system that talks to real AWS services (DynamoDB, SNS, SQS), while keeping the entire local experience orchestrated from a single AppHost:

🔗 AWS Local Development with .NET Aspire – Build a Serverless Notifications System
https://t.co/PSnwclWP12

In this article, we:

- Use Aspire’s AppHost + AWS CDK integration to provision a DynamoDB table, SNS topic, and SQS queue.
- Run Producer and Dispatcher Lambdas locally via the LambdaServiceEmulator.
- Trigger everything end-to-end using the Lambda Test Tool UI—no extra console apps required.
- Keep contracts in a shared library, and let Aspire wire environment variables and AWS resources for us.

If you’re a .NET developer building on AWS and still doing local orchestration manually, this combo of Aspire + AWS can seriously level up your dev experience.

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@DamianEdwards I have been working on the AWS Lambda support for C# file-based functions to go with our upcoming .NET 10 support. It is working pretty slick and useful for those really simple Lambda function.
https://t.co/iHoopZofIK

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

A lot of really cool AWS .NET enhancements for NServiceBus. I especially appreciate the support for our Lambda Annotations framework.

https://t.co/ZRKRWiP8az

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

Thanks @mjovanovictech for showing off the work we have been doing for AWS + Aspire.

[Milan Jovanović @mjovanovictech]

.NET Aspire isn’t just for Azure.

In my new video I show how to run Aspire on AWS:

- CDK + CloudFormation infra
- Orders API → SNS → SQS flow
- OpenTelemetry tracing

🚀 Watch it here: https://t.co/90QJVIuwqS

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

New AWS .NET post about using .NET Lambda and GraphGL/AppSync

Great bonus is the writer used our .NET Aspire integration in the sample code repository for easy local testing.

#aspire

[Norm Johanson @socketnorm]

@davidfowl Is there a time it is not toxic?

[David Pallmann @davidpallmann]

Developers, which way of working with AI assistants do you most prefer when *modernizing existing applications*? Comments welcome.