aws.md

AWS

AWS is genuinely pretty amazing for what it allows you to do. It also has a generous free tier.

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.

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)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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)