The AWS SDK for .NET simplifies the use of AWS services by providing a set of libraries that are consistent and familiar for .NET developers. All AWS SDKs provide support for API lifecycle considerations such credential management, retries, data marshaling, and serialization.

The AWS SDK for .NET provides .NET APIs for each AWS service. The SDK also supports higher level abstractions such as the Amazon S3 Transfer Utility, Amazon Cognito Identity Provider, and AWS DynamoDB Session State provider.