# AWS SDK for Java

The AWS SDK for Java provides a Java API for AWS infrastructure services. Using the SDK, you can build applications on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more.

## Features

The AWS SDK for Java includes:

- AWS Java Library—Build Java applications on top of APIs that take the complexity out of coding directly against a web service interface. The library provides APIs that hide much of the lower-level plumbing, including authentication, request retries, and error handling.
- Code Samples—Practical examples for how to use the library to build applications.
- Eclipse support—Use the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to add the AWS Java SDK to an existing project, or create a new Java project based on the AWS Java SDK.

See http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava for more information.