Service Client Classes

The AWS SDK for C++ includes client classes that provide interfaces to the AWS services. Each client class supports a particular AWS service. For example, the S3Client provides an interface to the Amazon S3 service.

The namespace for a client class follows the convention Aws::Service::ServiceClient. For example, the client class for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is Aws::IAM::IAMClient and the Amazon S3 client class is Aws::S3::S3Client.

All client classes for all AWS services are thread-safe.

When instantiating a client class, AWS credentials must be supplied. Credentials can be supplied from your code, the environment, or the shared AWS config file and shared credentials file. For more information about credentials, see Providing AWS Credentials.