Amazon Web Services has announced the first Developer Preview of its SDK for the Go programming language, giving developers who want to integrate cloud services in their apps more choice.

The SDK makes it easier for developers to integrate their Go applications with Amazon’s cloud-based storage, database and messaging services. Go is a Google-developed open source language developed with simplicity and efficiency as the main goals. Its use in the development of the Docker container platform has helped improve its standing.

Amazon already offers SDKs for Java, PHP, Python and Ruby. Go is nowhere near as popular as any of those, but it’s still an interesting addition. The language is also supported on Google’s App Engine platform. Just like Amazon, Google also lets developers use Java, PHP and Python.

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