# Document history of the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide
## Document history
The following table describes the important recent changes of the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an [RSS feed](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/amazon-toolkit-for-visual-studio-guide-doc-history.rss).
| Change | Description | Date |
| --- |--- |--- |
| [Updates to Getting Started Content](connect.md) | Updates made to Getting Started and Connecting to Amazon content to reflect changes made in the UI. | April 24, 2025 |
| [Updating firewalls and gateways to allow access](endpoints.md) | Lists of endpoints and resources that must be allow listed to access all service and features in the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio with Amazon Q for extensions. | March 20, 2025 |
| [Troubleshooting Firewall and proxy settings](general-troubleshoot.md) | Added new troubleshooting topic addressing firewall and proxy settings for the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio and Amazon Q. | December 15, 2024 |
| [Troubleshooting installation update](general-troubleshoot.md) | Updating installation issue content to account for an update from Microsoft. | November 20, 2024 |
| [Updates to Getting Started Content](connect.md) | Updates made to Getting Started and Connecting to Amazon content to reflect changes made in the UI. | October 24, 2024 |
| [Updates to Connecting to Amazon](connect.md) | Updates made to Connecting to Amazon content. | September 26, 2024 |
| [Updates to the Amazon EC2 AMI content](tkv-create-ami-from-instance.md) | Content updates have been made to document changes to the Amazon EC2 AMI process and procedures. | September 13, 2024 |
| [Amazon Toolkit components could not be initialized](general-troubleshoot.md) | Added troubleshooting topic to address issues with Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio components not initializing. | September 13, 2024 |
| [Viewing and filtering Amazon Q security scans](general-troubleshoot.md) | Added a troubleshooting topic to assist with viewing and filtering Amazon Q security scans. | July 31, 2024 |
| [Amazon Q for Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio](amazonq.md) | Amazon Q is now available for the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | June 30, 2024 |
| [Content updates and maintenance](lambda-creating-project-in-visual-studio.md) | Updating content for changes to the UI and Amazon style guidelines. | March 6, 2024 |
| [Content updates and maintenance](lambda-creating-project-docker-image.md) | Updating content for changes to the UI and Amazon style guidelines. | March 6, 2024 |
| [Content updates and maintenance](lambda-build-test-severless-app.md) | Updating content for changes to the UI and Amazon style guidelines. | March 6, 2024 |
| [Content updates and maintenance](lambda-rekognition-example.md) | Updating content for changes to the UI and Amazon style guidelines. | March 6, 2024 |
| [Content updates and maintenance](cw-log-frameworks.md) | Updating content for changes to the UI and Amazon style guidelines. | March 6, 2024 |
| [Updates to set up and authentication](setup.md) | The set up and authentication topics have been updated to improve security and the toolkit onboarding experience. See the [Getting Started](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-vscode/latest/userguide/setup.html) and [Authentication and access](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/credentials.html) topic TOCs to view changes. | June 22, 2023 |
| [Authentication and access](credentials.md) | Providing Amazon credentials is now Authentication and access. Refactoring TOC and subtopics to meet Amazon style and secuirty requirements. | May 4, 2023 |
| [Updates to the Setting up sections and topics](setup.md) | The [Setting up the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-vscode/latest/userguide/setting-up.html) sections and topics in this User Guide have been updated to improve the on boarding experience for the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | January 30, 2023 |
| [Updates to the Setting up sections and topics](setup-troubleshoot.md) | The [Setting up the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-vscode/latest/userguide/setting-up.html) sections and topics in this User Guide have been updated to improve the on boarding experience for the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | January 30, 2023 |
| [Added 2022 Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio information](setup.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2022 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | December 20, 2022 |
| [Updates to Publish to Amazon guide](publish-experience.md) | Documentation updates to reflect changes made to service for GA launch. | July 6, 2022 |
| [Title updates and relocation](lambda-cli-publish.md) | Minor title changes were made to better reflect content. Guide is now located in the Publishing to Amazon guide. | July 6, 2022 |
| [Deploying to Amazon: title and content updates](deployment-chapt.md) | The guide section formally titled: Deployment Using the Amazon Toolkit, has an updated table of contents (TOC) and is now titled: Deploying to Amazon. The following guides have completed deprecation and are no longer accessible: Deploying to Elastic Beanstalk (Legacy) and Deploying to Amazon CloudFormation (Legacy). Updated content regarding deployment to Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation can be found from the updated TOC in this guide. | July 6, 2022 |
| [Deploying an ASP.NET Core 2.0 App (Fargate) is now a legacy guide](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-fargate.md) | This documentation refers to legacy services and features. For updated guides and content, see the [Amazon .NET Deployment tool](https://aws.github.io/aws-dotnet-deploy/) guide and the updated [Deploying to Amazon](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/deployment-chapt.html) table of contents. | July 6, 2022 |
| [Deploy an ASP.NET App is now a legacy guide](deployment-beanstalk-netcore.md) | This documentation refers to legacy services and features. For updated guides and content, see the [Amazon .NET deployment tool](https://aws.github.io/aws-dotnet-deploy/) guide and the updated [Deploying to Amazon](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/deployment-chapt.html) table of contents. | July 6, 2022 |
| [Deploy an ASP.NET App is now a legacy guide](deployment-beanstalk-republish.md) | This documentation refers to legacy services and features. For updated guides and content, see the [Amazon .NET deployment tool](https://aws.github.io/aws-dotnet-deploy/) guide and the updated [Deploying to Amazon](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/deployment-chapt.html) table of contents. | July 6, 2022 |
| [New guide topic: Working with CloudWatch Logs in Visual Studio](cloudwatch-log-overview.md) | Created new overview topic for the [Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration in Visual Studio](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/cloudwatch-log.html) guide. | June 29, 2022 |
| [New guide topic: Setting up CloudWatch Logs integration for Visual Studio](cloudwatch-log-setup.md) | Created new set-up section for the [Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration in Visual Studio](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/cloudwatch-log.html) guide. | June 29, 2022 |
| [CloudWatch Logs integration for Visual Studio](cloudwatch-log.md) | Created new guide for Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration in Visual Studio, including guide topics: [Setting up CloudWatch Logs for Visual Studio](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/cloudwatch-log-setup.html) and [Working with CloudWatch Logs in Visual Studio](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/cloudwatch-log-overview.html). | June 29, 2022 |
| [Publish to Amazon](publish-experience.md) | Publish to Amazon is no longer in preview. Updates to reflect changes to UI and improvements to the publishing suggestions. | June 1, 2022 |
| [New Publish to Amazon available for preview](publish-experience.md) | Enhanced deployment experience that provides guidance on which Amazon service is right for your application. | October 21, 2021 |
| [SSO and MFA support for Amazon credentials](credentials.md) | Updated to document new support for Amazon Single Sign-On (IAM Identity Center) and multi-factor authentication in Amazon credentials. | April 21, 2021 |
| [Basic Amazon Lambda Project Creating Docker Image](lambda-creating-project-docker-image.md) | Added support for Lambda container images. | December 1, 2020 |
| [Security Content](security.md) | Added security content. | February 6, 2020 |
| [Providing Amazon credentials](credentials.md) | Updated with information about creating credential profiles in the shared Amazon credentials file. | June 20, 2019 |
| [Using the Amazon Lambda Project in the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio](lambda-creating-project-in-visual-studio.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Tutorial: Creating an Amazon Rekognition Lambda Application](lambda-rekognition-example.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Tutorial: Build and Test a Serverless Application with Amazon Lambda](lambda-build-test-severless-app.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Setting Up the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio](setup.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Deploying an ASP.NET Core 2.0 App (Fargate)](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-fargate.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Deploying an ASP.NET Core 2.0 App (EC2)](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-ec2.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Creating an Amazon CloudFormation Template Project in Visual Studio](tkv-cfn-editor-new-project.md) | Support for Visual Studio 2019 was added to the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. | March 28, 2019 |
| [Detailed Views of Container Service](tkv-ecs.md) | Added information about the detailed views of Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters and container repositories that are provided by Amazon Explorer. | February 16, 2018 |
| [Deploying to Amazon EC2 Container Service](deployment-ecs.md) | Added information about deploying to Amazon EC2 container service. | February 16, 2018 |
| [Deploying Container Service using Fargate](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-fargate.md) | Added information about how to deploy a containerized ASP.NET Core 2.0 application targeting Linux through Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. | February 16, 2018 |
| [Deploying Container Service using EC2](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-ec2.md) | Added information about how to deploy a containerized ASP.NET Core 2.0 application targeting Linux through Amazon ECS using the EC2 launch type. | February 16, 2018 |
| [Credentials for Deploying to Amazon EC2 Container Service](deployment-ecs-specify-credentials.md) | Added information about how to specify credentials when deploying to Amazon EC2 container service. | February 16, 2018 |