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How to Connect AWS Application Composer in VS Code

Shrihari Haridass on January 16, 2024

As you know, last month, AWS announced AWS Application Composer in VS Code, allowing you to use it within VS Code and work seamlessly. However, whe...
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Ryan Coleman

This is awesome! Once you have the AWS Toolkit extension installed, you can optionally skip the Console step and simply open your CloudFormation template in VS Code, then open with Composer (icon upper right, or right-click on file).

Composer does not require authentication, so the builder ID is only necessary if you want to use the CodeWhisperer integration to generate sample configuration for any CloudFormation resource type (those standard components in Composer).

Cheers!

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Shrihari Haridass

Thanks buddy

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Anna

Thanks for this tutorial! A small update - as Ryan said, you can now use App Composer in VS Code directly, without the need to sign into the AWS Console. I wrote a tutorial using App Composer + genAI in VS Code that takes you through installing the extension.

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Shrihari Haridass

@annaspies Thanks for letting us know. I just read your blog thanks for the update, when I wrote this blog at that time I was trying to find how to connect it but you know my AWS account credentials is already configured because I am working on IaC