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)

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.

• 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

• 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 - CLI to set up container environments in AWS.

• 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)

• 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