AWS

AWS has a nice free tier. AWS CDK, Digger & ts2asl are nice. SLIC Starter seems great as AWS serverless starter.

Haven't used AWS but did use GCP which is similar and had horrendous experience. From now on, I avoid AWS/GCP fully because not only is their UI horrendous, it's pricing is insane too.

Interesting

• AWS Aurora - MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud.
• Amazon Lex - Conversational interfaces for your applications powered by the same deep learning technologies as Alexa.
• AWS Lambda Layers
• AWS AppSync - Power your applications with the right data, from one or more data sources, at global scale.
• AWS Amplify - Build on a flexible, scalable, and reliable serverless backend.
• Amazon Neptune - Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud.
• RDS Proxy - Fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
• AWS Honeycode - Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code. (Announcement) (HN)
• AWS App Runner - Fully managed container application service.

Notes

• If you have an S3 bucket with zero files in it, it doesn’t incur storage charges. You can put a lifecycle rule on an S3 bucket that will automatically expire files after say 30 days.
• Can store everything in SSM & not use environment variables.

Links

• AWS in plain English - Great reference.
• AWS practical guide
• AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) - Framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code. (Web) (AWS CDK Examples)
• Serverless Stack Toolkit (SST) - Extension of AWS CDK that allows you to build serverless apps. (HN) (Web) (Ideal Stack Preview)
• AWS Fargate Action - GitHub action to deploy to AWS Fargate on push to the master branch.
• AWS Serverless Application Model - Contains the SAM specification, the code that translates SAM templates into AWS CloudFormation stacks, general information about the model, and examples of common applications.
• Kubernetes on AWS with Terraform - Kubernetes implementation using CoreOS on AWS platform.
• Cloud Reports - Scans your AWS cloud resources and generates reports.
• CloudMapper - Helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.
• AWS costs every programmer should know (2019) (HN)
• awless - Mighty CLI for AWS.
• Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison (Code)
• Buildkite Elastic CI Stack - Gives you a private, autoscaling Buildkite Agent cluster.
• sqs-consumer - Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based applications without the boilerplate.
• The \$10m engineering problem (2019)
• AWSume - Utility for easily assuming AWS IAM roles from the command line.
• Modern applications at AWS (2019)
• cw - Best way to tail AWS CloudWatch Logs from your terminal.
• The Good Parts of AWS book (2019)
• Last Week in AWS - News and newsletter about latest offerings of AWS.
• The Amazon Premium (2019) (HN)
• AWS Security Toolbox (AST) (2019)
• AWS Glossary
• AWS Cost Optimization 101 (2020)
• Building a Serverless Podcast Search Engine on AWS (2019)
• Architecting for the Cloud - AWS Best Practices (2019)
• Bash-my-AWS - Simple but extremely powerful set of CLI commands for managing resources on Amazon Web Services. (Code)
• AWS Docs
• Better Way to SSH in AWS (With RDS tunneling and security automation) (2020)
• Serverless Microservice Patterns for AWS (2019)
• SSM Helpers - Help manage AWS systems manager with helpers.
• The good parts of AWS - A visual summary (2020) (HN)
• Amazon EKS workshop
• Amazon SSM Agent - Agent to enable remote management of your Amazon EC2 instance configuration.
• Amazon CodeGuru - Automate code reviews. Identify your most expensive lines of code. (HN)
• LocalStack - Fully functional local AWS cloud stack. (Web) (1.0) (HN)
• Punchcard - Type-safe AWS infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code on AWS in a familiar language — the right way with InGraph (2020)
• AWS Data Wrangler - Pandas on AWS.
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• aws-api-tools - Tools to explore and transform AWS service APIs.
• Kubernetes Daemonset to gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown
• AWS CDK RFCs
• AWS AppSync GraphQL Photo Sample
• AWS Icons for PlantUML
• Simple storage pricing calculator for AWS (HN)
• S3Proxy - Access other storage backends via the S3 API.
• saws - Supercharged AWS command line interface.
• AWS Go SDK (version 1)
• AWS Python SDK (botocore - low-level, core functionality of boto 3)
• AWS JS SDK
• AWS Haskell SDK
• Amazon EKS User Guide
• HN: AWS EC2 General Price Cut (2020)
• AWS Services You Should Avoid (2020) (HN)
• Getting started with serverless on AWS (2020)
• AWS Networking 101 (2020)
• VPC Studio - VPC CIDR calculator with codegen. (Code)
• AWS services explained in one line each (2020) (HN)
• Awesome Amazon EKS
• cloud-nuke - Tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it.
• Odin - Deploy your 12-factor-applications to AWS easily and securely.
• Map Of Computing Architectures for AWS (2020) (HN)
• AWS notes
• AWS Activate for Startups - Offers startups free tools, resources, and more to quickly get started on AWS.
• Policy Sentry - IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator and analysis database.
• Build an App with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (2020)
• Amazon ECS Container Agent
• AWS Solutions Constructs - Library of Architecture Patterns for the AWS CDK.
• How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue (2020) (HN)
• Looking to reduce AWS EC2 spend? Save up to \$750k with these guidelines! (2020)
• S3 Bucket Monitoring - Ensure private buckets stay private and public buckets are correct.
• The Extended AWS Security Ramp-Up Guide (2020)
• Usage - Reduce your AWS spend. With no risk. 44% average savings. (HN)
• Top 5 Things to Learn First with AWS and How to Get Started with Amazon Web Services (2020)
• Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill? (2020)
• Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances (2020) (HN)
• AWS Tagging Best Practices (HN)
• Using ProxyCannon-NG to Create Unlimited Rotating Proxies (2020)
• AWS Stash - Collection of AWS related videos, podcasts, code repositories, whitepapers, and feature releases, all in a single, easy to search interface.
• AWS Boilerplate - Opinionated full stack web app's boilerplate, ready to be deployed to AWS platform.
• AWS CDK Intro Workshop (Code)
• Tips and Gotchas for managing your AWS Costs (2020)
• AWS Video Catalog
• AWS Perspective - Quickly visualizes AWS Cloud workloads as architecture diagrams. (HN) (Code)
• Open AWS Catalogue - Reference of all things AWS. (Code)
• AWS for the rest of us (2020)
• Bucket Stream - Find interesting Amazon S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs.
• Granularity levels in AWS IAM policies (2020)
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - Extension for working with AWS services such as AWS Lambda.
• AWS Copilot CLI - Tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate.
• Top 5 AWS EC2 Performance Problems (2020) - How to detect them, why they occur and how to resolve them.
• Awesome CDK
• Where to Start with AWS as a Developer (2020)
• AWS Cost Comparison Tool
• My AWS toolbox - tools, plugins and applications (2020)
• Amazon ECR Docker Credential Helper
• Amazon EKS Helm charts
• AWS Community Builders - Program offers technical resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities.
• AWS Secure Environment Accelerator - Tool designed to help deploy and operate secure multi-account AWS environments on an ongoing basis.
• AWS Serverless Workshops
• Cachenator - Distributed, sharded in-memory cache and proxy for S3.
• Digger - Build on AWS without having to learn it, no-code DevOps. (Beta)
• Grafana dashboards for AWS CloudWatch
• 7777 - Your remote AWS database on your local port 7777. (Docs)
• Learn AWS Blog
• CloudNews - Never miss important AWS news. Newsletter.
• AWS List All - List all your AWS resources, all regions, all services.
• AWS Perspective - Tool that quickly visualizes AWS Cloud workloads as architecture diagrams. (Web)
• AWS Proton sample templates
• ConsoleMe - Consolidates the management of multiple AWS accounts into a single interface.
• CDK Patterns - AWS Serverless architecture patterns built with CDK for developers to use. (Web)
• AWS Deployment Framework - Extensive and flexible framework to manage and deploy resources across multiple AWS accounts and regions within an AWS Organization.
• aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services.
• AWS CLI Cheat Sheet
• Vantage - Alternative AWS console, focused on user experience and cost transparency. (HN) (GitHub)
• Pacu - AWS exploitation framework, designed for testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments.
• aws-nuke - Remove all resources from an AWS account. (HN)
• superwerker - Automates the setup of an AWS Cloud environment with prescriptive best practices.
• AWS as a Framework (2021)
• Moto - Mock AWS Services.
• Amazon EC2 Metadata Mock - Tool to simulate Amazon EC2 instance metadata.
• Remote Debugging in AWS (2021)
• AWS Workshops
• AWS Compute Blog
• AWS CloudFormation Sample Templates
• GitHub Action to Deploys AWS CloudFormation Stacks
• VS Code CloudFormation Linter - Uses cfn-lint to lint your CloudFormation templates.
• Awesome CloudFormation
• SenseDeep - Serverless Monitoring and Troubleshooting. (GitHub)
• Amazon EC2 Instance Selector - CLI tool and go library which recommends instance types based on resource criteria like vcpus and memory.
• AWS Pricing Calculator - Estimate the cost for your architecture solution.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Essentials - E-Learning Notes
• Alternatives to AWS
• AWS Cheat Sheets
• saml2aws - CLI tool which enables you to login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials using a SAML IDP.
• AWS Quick Starts - Quick Start Contributor's Guide. (Code)
• How they AWS
• What’s New at AWS
• Awesome AWS Chalice
• Exploratory Analysis and ETL with Presto and AWS Glue (2020)
• Platform that uses my AWS account, but provides me an incredible DX. This way I can start extremely easy, but also have the full, raw power of AWS at my fingertips. (2021)
• Repokid - AWS Least Privilege for Distributed, High-Velocity Deployment.
• Amazon S3 Object Lambda (2021) (HN)
• Collection of higher-level reusable cdk constructs
• ecsk - CLI tool that you can interactively call Amazon ECS APIs (run-task, execute-command, stop-task), copy files between ECS and local, and view logs.
• Diving Deep on S3 Consistency (2021) (HN)
• [MAMIP] Monitor AWS Managed IAM Policies
• AWS X-Ray SDK for Python
• AutoSpotting - Saves up to 90% of AWS EC2 costs by automating the use of spot instances on existing AutoScaling groups.
• Run an Action on all VMs in an AWS Auto Scaling Group (2021)
• Amazon SageMaker Safe Deployment Pipeline
• AWS SDK for Rust (Article) (HN)
• Learn AWS with Rust
• Hello App Runner - Example application for AWS App Runner.
• Ness - Deploy web sites to your AWS account effortlessly.
• Flashcards to learn AWS skills (HN)
• AWS FAQs
• PMapper - Tool for quickly evaluating IAM permissions in AWS.
• Kubernetes Cluster API Provider AWS
• Nomad AWS Module - Terraform Module for how to run Nomad on AWS using Terraform and Packer.
• Advice on using AWS for startups (2021)
• Mind map of container platforms and tools on AWS
• Everything AWS - Search and discover 40K+ quality AWS repositories.
• AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) Terraform module
• 330+ Open source security controls for AWS
• Using AWS CDK with Go to launch an app with App Runner (2021)
• awsrm - Remove command for AWS resources.
• AWSweeper - Tool for cleaning your AWS account.
• awsls - List command for AWS resources.
• Running Scheduled Jobs in AWS Using Terraform (2021)
• SQS Message Mover - Tool for moving AWS SQS messages from one queue to another.
• LocalStack AWS CLI
• Former2 - Generate CloudFormation / Terraform / Troposphere templates from your existing AWS resources. (Web)
• iamlive - Generate an IAM policy from AWS calls using client-side monitoring (CSM) or embedded proxy.
• GoFakeS3 - Fake AWS S3 object storage (used for local test-runs against AWS S3 APIs).
• Declarative provisioning of AWS resources with Spinnaker and Crossplane (2021)
• AWS Cost Saving Recommendations (HN)
• Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019) (HN)
• AWS’s Egregious Egress (2021) (HN)
• TinyStacks - Fastest way to deploy your Docker app on AWS.
• EKS on speed (2021)
• honeyaws - Observability for your AWS load balancers, CloudFront, and more.
• Prowler - AWS Security Tool.
• awslogs - AWS CloudWatch logs for Humans.
• Saw - Fast, multi-purpose tool for AWS CloudWatch Logs.
• JetKit/CDK - Cloud-native TypeScript API development kit for AWS CDK. (Web)
• AWS EventBridge Canon - Simple UI to Publish, Save and Share AWS EventBridge Events. (Web)
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Best Practices (Code)
• Amazon EKS using AWS CDK with Typescript - Sample project that deploys an EKS Cluster.
• Helm S3 - Helm plugin that allows to set up a chart repository in AWS S3.
• List of open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, DFIR, etc
• aacli - AWS authentication CLI with built-in MFA support.
• CDK Fargate Docker starter kit with AWS CDK v2.0 - Example of how to deploy a simple docker image to a Fargate cluster using AWS CDK.
• Amazon EKS Anywhere - Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure. (Web) (HN)
• Mistakes I've Made in AWS (HN)
• AWS IAM Tracker - Collects IAM actions, AWS APIs and managed policies from various public sources. (Web)
• AWS Cloudformation User Guide
• Building a Serverless Compute Platform with AWS and TypeScript - Tomasz Lakomy (2021)
• s5cmd - Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool.
• AWS Samples GitHub
• AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services (2021) (HN)
• 3 sad billing facts about AWS (2021)
• AWS Greengrass Core Rust SDK
• AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation (2021)
• Comparing AWS's RDS and PlanetScale (2021)
• Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation (2021) (HN)
• AWS JWT Verify - NodeJS library for verifying JWTs signed by Amazon Cognito, and any OIDC-compatible IDP that signs JWTs with RS256.
• Free Templates for AWS CloudFormation (Docs)
• cfsec - Static analysis for CloudFormation templates to identify common misconfigurations.
• AWS Cloudformation Publisher - Packages your CloudFormation templates into an S3 bucket in every AWS region and creates "launch stack" links.
• Profiling 25,000 S3 Buckets: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Cloudflare R2 (2021) (Tweet)
• AWS Recon - Multi-threaded AWS inventory collection tool with a focus on security-relevant resources and metadata.
• Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack (HN)
• Tools to Build on AWS (Code)
• s3-credentials - Tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets.
• aws-auth - AWS credentials management CLI tool. (HN)
• AWS Exposable Resources - Resource types that can be publicly exposed on AWS.
• CDK-Dia - Automated diagrams for CDK infrastructure.
• ECS Best Practices
• Amazon EKS Workshop (Code)
• The CDK Book - Comprehensive Guide to the AWS Cloud Development Kit.
• Querying AWS at scale across APIs, regions, and accounts (2021) (HN)
• go-aws-sso - Makes dealing with AWS SSO Logins an ease.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Pulumi resource package - Providing multi-language access to AWS.
• AWS Events and Webinars (AWS Conferences One-Pagers)
• Answering some misconceptions about AWS Cloud Development Kit (2020)
• Flowchart: How should I run containers on AWS? (2021)
• AWS Load Balancer Controller - Controller to help manage Elastic Load Balancers for a Kubernetes cluster.
• Serverless Data Streaming on AWS | Anahit Pogosova (2021)
• IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances (2021) (HN)
• Enumerate IAM permissions - Enumerate the permissions associated with AWS credential set.
• AWS Marketplace - Serverless integration for SaaS products (Example)
• Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
• AWS Samples GitHub
• AWS SDK for iOS
• s3sync - Go utility for syncing between s3 and local.
• AWS SDK for Swift
• Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub (2021) (HN)
• New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021 (HN)
• AWS Native Blog
• cwl-mount - Mount AWS CloudWatch logs as a file system.
• Vacuum - Clean up unused AWS resources.
• s3-server - Generic S3 server implementation.
• What should AWS focus on (2021)
• s3gof3r - Fast, concurrent, streaming access to Amazon S3, including gof3r, a CLI.
• AWS Well-Architected Labs - Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices. (Web)
• aws-security-viz - Visualize your aws security groups.
• onaws - Tool to check if an IP/hostname belongs to the AWS IP space or not.
• S3 Manager - Web GUI written in Go to manage S3 buckets from any provider.
• AWSQS::Kubernetes::Helm - AWS CloudFormation resource provider for the management of helm 3 resources in EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• AWS Community Builders - DEV Community
• Amazon ECS CLI - Enables users to run their applications on ECS/Fargate using the Docker Compose file format.
• AWS Serverless SaaS Workshop
• Publications - Amazon Science
• Amazon Science
• AWS SSO CLI - Powerful tool for using AWS SSO for the CLI and web console.
• Awesome EventBridge
• AWS is Not a Dumb Pipe (2022) (Lobsters)
• Amazon EKS AMI Build Specification - Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI.
• Rust On AWS (Really FAST Lambdas) (2022)
• Hologram - Easy, painless AWS credentials on developer laptops.
• Stack-Assembly - Command line tool to configure and deploy AWS Cloudformation stacks in a safe way.
• AWSTagHelper - AWS bulk tagging tool.
• cloudstructs - High-level constructs for AWS CDK.
• Crossplane AWS Provider
• awsping - Console tool to check the latency to each Amazon EC2 region.
• Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency (2022) (HN)
• aws-okta-processor - Okta credential processor for AWS CLI.
• Saving on AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch Logs costs (2022)
• Amazon EKS with AWS Cloudformation and AWS CDK
• CDK TypeScript Demo Project
• Set up Event Store on AWS with CDK (2022)
• S3RS - S3 CLI client with multi configs with diffent provider.
• How did you learn AWS? (2022)
• AWS Security Reference Architecture Examples - Example solutions demonstrating how to implement patterns within the AWS Security Reference Architecture guide using CloudFormation and Customizations for AWS Control Tower.
• Minimal AWS SSO setup for personal AWS development (2022)
• Setting up Kubernetes on AWS (2022)
• CSI driver for Amazon EBS
• IAM Credentials Rotator - AWS CDK construct for rotating IAM user credentials and sending to a third party.
• Amazon ECS "Deploy Task Definition" Action for GitHub Actions
• SageMaker Python SDK - Open source library for training and deploying machine learning models on Amazon SageMaker.
• Async AWS SDK for Python
• AWS Bootstrap Kit Examples Overview
• s4cmd - Super S3 command line tool.
• Alohomora - CLI that makes using AWS Parameter Store... as simple as the flick of a wand.
• A magical AWS serverless developer experience (2022) (HN)
• AWS.jl - Julia interface to AWS.
• AWS SDK for Java
• AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for LocalStack
• Baby's First AWS Deployment (2022)
• Awesome ECS
• Soto S3 Transfer - Make uploading and downloading of files to AWS S3 easy.
• Stacktape - DevOps-free application development. (Code) (HN)
• ElectricEye - Continuously monitor your AWS services for configurations that can lead to degradation of confidentiality, integrity or availability.
• AWS Encryption SDK for JavaScript
• Typescript 2 ASL Transpiler
• Cloud Governance with CDK using Aspects (2022)
• 10 CloudWatch Logs Insights examples for serverless applications (2022)
• Biggest mistakes you see startups making in AWS
• aws-auth - Makes the management of the aws-auth config map for EKS Kubernetes clusters easier.
• Amazon CloudWatch Agent
• S3 Account Search - Tool lets you find the account id an S3 bucket belongs too.
• aws-sso-util - Making life with AWS SSO a little easier.
• Cloudy - Set of constructs for the AWS Cloud Development Kit that aim to improve the DX by providing a faster and type-safe code environment.
• Altimeter - Graph AWS resources in Neptune.
• python_fasts3 - Fast S3 in Python using Rust.
• AWS RDS Terraform module - Terraform module which creates RDS resources on AWS.
• goproxy-s3 - Go proxy that serves from S3.
• Scaling containers on AWS in 2022
• FP Complete AWS Foundation - Establish a solid Foundation on AWS with these modules for Terraform.
• Cross-account / cross-domain EventBridge example - Demonstration of using EventBridge across accounts to publish cross-domain application events.
• SLIC Starter - Complete starter project for production-grade serverless applications on AWS.
• SLIC Watch - Easy alarms and dashboards for Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Kinesis, Step Functions and more.
• AI as a Service: Serverless machine learning with AWS (2020) (Code)
• aws-account-shredder - Repository to audit, service, and clean up leftover AWS resources.
• AWS EKS ASG Rolling Update Handler - Handles rolling upgrades for AWS ASGs for EKS.
• Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is Generally Available: Instant Scaling for Demanding Workloads (2022)
• Session Manager Plugin - Plugin to help you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to start and end sessions to your managed instances.
• AWSSSMChaosRunner - Amazon's light-weight library for chaos engineering on AWS. It can be used for EC2 and ECS (with EC2 launch type).
• Terraform AWS Backup
• Terraform AWS CI/CD - Terraform Module for CI/CD with AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build.
• Code generator for AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
• AWS Serverless Ecommerce Platform
• Sceptre - Tool to drive AWS CloudFormation.
• AWS Should Be Easy - Simpler infrastructure as code specification. (HN)
• Amazon Redshift re-invented (2022) (HN)
• Poro - Scan publicly accessible assets on your AWS cloud environment.
• AWSS Bootstrap - Full stack on AWS in one click.
• OpenApiX - Combine the power of AWS CDK & OpenAPI YAML Schema Definitions.
• Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK
• Graviton 3: First Impressions (2022) (HN)
• AWS Datadog Forwarders Terraform module - Terraform module which creates resources to forward logs and metrics to Datadog on AWS.
• Learn Amazon SageMaker Book (2021) (Code)
• dns53 - Dynamic DNS within Amazon Route53. Expose your EC2 quickly, easily and privately.
• Getting started with AWS Graviton
• YACE - AWS CloudWatch to Prometheus exporter.
• SSO Sync - Populate AWS SSO directly with your G Suite users and groups using either a CLI or AWS Lambda.
• openrolesanywhere - Open-source proof-of-concept client for AWS IAM Roles Anywhere.
• AWS Cloud Provider for Kubernetes
• ecspresso - Deployment tool for Amazon ECS.
• Microservice Observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service Workshop
• Complete AWS IAM Reference (Code)
• AWS AppSync Real Time Client iOS
• CDK Bill Bot - Serverless cost optimization bot.
• Hugging Face Transformers and Habana Gaudi AWS DL1 Instances (2022)
• Cfplot - Generate waterfall graphs of CloudFormation. (HN)
• S3 Datastore Implementation
• Matano - Open-source serverless security lake powered by Rust + Apache Iceberg.
• Serverless Snippets Collection (Code)