I'm surprised they are investing into this. I checked Phoenix recently because I was interested in LiveView and there isn't even an official AWS SDK for Elixir.
Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.
Meanwhile I am a happy user of :ex_aws or :req_s3 which has done everything I need it to do. Object ops, iam policies, etc. A dependable S3 client has been there for years. The elixir core team doesn't need to maintain it.
ReqS3 is one of my favorite things to use: https://hexdocs.pm/req_s3/readme.html
Maybe you can guarantee Phoenix will be maintained 5-10 years from now but that's really not the case for some random library on Github.
If you look around you'll see this kind of stuff is really one of the biggest blockers for Elxir and Phoenix. Especially for something as fundamental as cloud storage.
Considering the horror the official AWS CLI is this seems like a strange example. I’ve used both the non official libraries and they work fine. The one that is auto generated doesn’t feel very Elixir, but that’s to be expected.
What are you talking about, there has been a AWS client forever and I've never had a problem. It's not something you really need an official sdk for they are anyway often just reference because you might want different performance characteristics.
I've usually not seen more than 3 or so official SDK for most services and there are a lot more programming languages than that. For example Microsoft's Graph API doesn't have an official Ruby client, they have one that sort of works.
The main lib everyone uses, :ex_aws, has been actively maintained for literally over a decade[1]. Official or not, it's used by literally the entire community, since even non-AWS services often will support its API.
I still don't understand this. If you are big enough then you get Amazon to make an official sdk, if you aren't then what exactly are you looking for?
The official aws cli used to talk to the soap interface and used regex instead of actually doing correct error handling and that was used by so many tools. Even though it used to break horrible.
It's quite a niche you are talking about, not big enough to debug open source code but still big enough to require SLA for SDK and not being able to talk Amazon into creating it. It's generated code, it's not rocket science.
What I have experienced is that software licence, where you are sending data to, where you are hosting it and having access to audit the code has usually been a bigger concern.
But then again big organisations often have really specific concerns. So I'm not doubting your statement it's just that I have never heard it before.
Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.