Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Setting up your Go development environment for Elastic Beanstalk

This topic provides instructions to set up a Go development environment to test your application locally prior to deploying it to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. It also references websites that provide installation instructions for useful tools.

Installing Go

To run Go applications locally, install Go. If you don't need a specific version, get the latest version that Elastic Beanstalk supports. For a list of supported versions, see Go in the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Platforms document.

Download Go at https://golang.org/doc/install.

Installing the Amazon SDK for Go

If you need to manage Amazon resources from within your application, install the Amazon SDK for Go by using the following command.

$ go get github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go

For more information, see Amazon SDK for Go.