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A curated list of awesome Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources. Featuring the Fiery Meter of AWSome.

Awesome AWS

A curated list of awesome AWS libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources.

Inspired by the awesome list.

The Fiery Meter of AWSome

• Repo with 0100+ Stars: 🔥
• Repo with 0200+ Stars: 🔥🔥
• Repo with 0500+ Stars: 🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with 1000+ Stars: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with 2000+ Stars: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Repos not on The Fiery Meter of AWSome can still be awesome, see A Note on Repo AWSomeness.

awesome-aws Python Module

The Python module awesome-aws regularly scans repos on Awesome AWS to maintain the accuracy of the Fiery Meter of AWSome.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Check out the Contributing Guidelines.

Index

• SDKs and Samples
  • Android
  • C++
  • Clojure
  • Go
  • iOS
  • IoT
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Haskell
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Scala
  • Xamarin
  • Unity
  • .NET
• Command Line Tools
  • Universal Command Line Interface
  • Windows PowerShell
• IDE Toolkits
  • Eclipse Toolkit
  • Visual Studio Toolkit
• Open Source Repos
  • API Gateway
  • AppStream
  • CLI
  • CloudFormation
  • CloudSearch
  • CloudTrail
  • CloudWatch
  • Code Deploy
  • Code Pipeline
  • Cognito
  • Data Pipeline
  • Device Farm
  • DynamoDB
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Elastic Container Service
  • Elastic File System
  • Elastic MapReduce
  • Elastic Search
  • Elasticache
  • Glacier
  • Kinesis
  • Lambda
  • Machine Learning
  • Mobile Analytics
  • OpsWorks
  • Redshift
  • Route 53
  • S3
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Data
  • DevOps
  • Security
  • Accompanying
  • Miscellaneous
• Guides, Books, Documentation, and Training
  • Getting Started Guides
  • General Guides
  • Books
  • Whitepapers
  • Documentation
  • Training
  • Case Studies: Powered by AWS
• Social
  • Blogs
  • Twitter Influencers
  • Facebook Pages
  • YouTube Channels
  • LinkedIn Groups
  • Subreddits
  • Conferences
• Latest KPIs and Stats
• Appendix of Core Services
  • Services in Plain English
  • Compute
  • Networking
  • Enterprise Applications
  • Analytics
  • Management Tools
  • Security and Identity
  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile Services
  • Storage and Content Delivery
  • Databases
  • Application Services
  • Developer Tools
  • Miscellaneous Services
• Contributing
• Credits
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contact Info
• License

SDKs and Samples

AWS and community SDKs with samples and docs, grouped by language.

Android SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples 🔥🔥
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

C++ SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥
• Blog with Samples

The C++ SDK is a labs project with limited docs and/or samples.

Clojure SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥
• Install
• Docs

The Clojure SDK is a community project with limited docs and/or samples.)

Go SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Related Repos:

• goamz/goamz 🔥🔥

iOS SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples 🔥🔥
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

IoT SDK

• Repo for Arduino
• Repo for C 🔥
• Repo for JavaScript 🔥🔥
• Repo for Arduino Yun
• Docs

The IoT SDK is a labs project with limited docs and/or samples.

Java SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

JavaScript SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Related Repos:

• chilts/awssum 🔥🔥
• livelycode/aws-lib 🔥🔥🔥
• SaltwaterC/aws2js 🔥🔥

Haskell SDK

• Repo 🔥
• Docs

Related Repos:

• aristidb/aws 🔥

The Haskell SDK is a community project with limited docs and/or samples.

Perl SDK

• Repo
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

The Perl SDK is a community project.

PHP SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Related Repos:

• aws-sdk-php-laravel 🔥🔥🔥
• aws-sdk-php-silex
• aws-sdk-php-zf2

Python SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Related Repos:

• boto3 🔥🔥🔥🔥
• botocore 🔥🔥

Ruby SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Related Repos:

• aws-sdk-rails 🔥
• appoxy/aws 🔥🔥
• rightscale/right_aws 🔥🔥

Scala SDK

• Repo

Related Repos:

• atlassian/aws-scala
• seratch/AWScala 🔥🔥

The Scala SDK is a labs project with limited docs and/or samples.

Unity SDK

• Repo
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs

Xamarin SDK

• Repo
• Blog with Samples

The Xamarin SDK is a labs project with limited docs and/or samples.

.NET SDK

• Repo 🔥🔥
• Repo with Samples
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More
• Samples

Command Line Tools

AWS and community command line tools with samples and docs.

Universal Command Line Interface

• Repo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Related Repos:

• awslabs/aws-shell 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• donnemartin/saws 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Windows PowerShell

• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

IDE Toolkits

Official IDE toolkits with samples and docs.

Eclipse Toolkit

• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Visual Studio Toolkit

• Install
• Docs
• Learn More

Open Source Repos

AWS and community open source projects, grouped by service. See A Note on Repo AWSomeness for more details.

API Gateway

AWS Repos:

• api-gateway-secure-pet-store 🔥 - Cognito credentials through Lambda.
• aws-apigateway-sdk-java - SDK for Java.
• aws-apigateway-swagger-importer 🔥🔥 - Tools to work with Swagger.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

AppStream

AWS Repos:

• amazon-appstream-net - Bindings to the native AppStream API.
• amazon-appstream-sample-entitlement-service - Session management, cognito integration, and web UI.
• aws-appstream-sdk-java - SDK for Java.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

CLI

AWS Repos:

• amazon-ecs-cli 🔥🔥 - ECS CLI using the same Docker Compose file format and familiar Compose commands.
• aws-cli 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Universal Command Line Interface.
• aws-shell 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• awscli-cookbook - Installs the CLI tools and provides a set of LWRPs for use within chef cookbooks.

Community Repos:

• achiku/jungle 🔥🔥🔥 - Operations by EC2 and ELB cli should be simpler.
• donnemartin/saws 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - A Supercharged AWS Command Line Interface.
• timkay/aws 🔥🔥 - Easy command line access to Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, ELB, and SDB.

CloudFormation

AWS Repos:

• aws-cfn-custom-resource-examples - Custom resource examples.
• aws-cfn-resource-bridge - Custom resource framework.
• cfncluster-cookbook - Sample Cookbook.
• cfncluster 🔥 - Framework that deploys and maintains HPC clusters.

Community Repos:

• bazaarvoice/cloudformation-ruby-dsl 🔥 - Ruby DSL for creating templates.
• beaknit/cform - SublimeText plugin.
• cloudtools/troposphere 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Python library to create descriptions.
• cotdsa/cumulus 🔥 - Manages stacks.

CloudSearch

AWS Repos:

• cloudsearchable - An ActiveRecord-style ORM query interface.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

CloudTrail

AWS Repos:

• aws-cloudtrail-processing-library - Easily consume and process log files.

Community Repos:

• AppliedTrust/traildash 🔥🔥 - Slick dashboard.

CloudWatch

AWS Repos:

• cloudwatch-logs-subscription-consumer 🔥 - Kinesis stream reader.
• ecs-cloudwatch-logs - Assets in the blog post on using Amazon ECS and Amazon CloudWatch logs.
• logstash-output-cloudwatchlogs - A logstash plugin that sends logs to CloudWatch.
• opsworks-cloudwatch-logs-cookbooks - OpsWorks sample cookbook.

Community Repos:

• jorgebastida/awslogs 🔥🔥 - Simple CLI for querying groups, streams and events.
• newrelic-platform/newrelic_aws_cloudwatch_plugin 🔥 - New Relic plugin.

Code Deploy

AWS Repos:

• aws-codedeploy-agent - Sample agent.
• aws-codedeploy-plugin - Jenkins plugin.
• aws-codedeploy-samples 🔥🔥 - Samples and template scenarios.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Code Pipeline

AWS Repos:

• aws-codepipeline-custom-job-worker - Develop your own job worker when creating a custom action.
• aws-codepipeline-jenkins-aws-codedeploy_linux - Four-stage pipeline for Linux.
• aws-codepipeline-plugin-for-jenkins - Jenkins plugin.
• aws-codepipeline-s3-aws-codedeploy_linux - Simple pipeline for Linux.
• AWSCodePipeline-Jenkins-AWSCodeDeploy_Windows - Four-stage pipeline for Windows.
• AWSCodePipeline-S3-AWSCodeDeploy_Windows - Simple pipeline for Windows.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Cognito

AWS Repos:

• amazon-cognito-android - Sync SDK for Android.
• amazon-cognito-developer-authentication-sample - Authentication sample.
• amazon-cognito-dotnet - Sync SDK for .NET.
• amazon-cognito-ios - Sync SDK for iOS.
• amazon-cognito-js - Sync SDK for JavaScript.
• amazon-cognito-streams-sample - Consuming Streams sample.
• cognito-sample-nodejs - Sample App for Node.js.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Data Pipeline

AWS Repos:

• data-pipeline-samples - Sample pipelines.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Device Farm

AWS Repos:

• aws-device-farm-appium-tests-for-sample-app - Appium TestNG Android tests.
• aws-device-farm-calabash-tests-for-sample-app - Calabash Android tests.
• aws-device-farm-gradle-plugin - Gradle plugin.
• aws-device-farm-jenkins-plugin - Jenkins plugin.
• aws-device-farm-sample-app-for-android - Sample Android app.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

DynamoDB

AWS Repos:

• aws-dotnet-session-provider - A session state provider for ASP.NET apps.
• aws-dotnet-trace-listener - A trace listener for System.Diagnostics that can be used to log events.
• aws-dynamodb-encryption-java - Encryption Client for Java.
• aws-dynamodb-examples - Samples using the Java SDK.
• aws-dynamodb-mars-json-demo - Stores and indexes NASA JPL Mars images.
• aws-dynamodb-session-tomcat - Session store for Apache Tomcat.
• aws-sessionstore-dynamodb-ruby - Handles sessions for Ruby web apps.
• dynamodb-cross-region-library - Cross-region replication.
• dynamodb-geo 🔥 - Library to create and query geospatial data.
• dynamodb-import-export-tool - Import and export examples.
• dynamodb-online-index-violation-detector - Finds violations on an online GSI's hash key and range key.
• dynamodb-streams-kinesis-adapter - Kinesis interface to consume and process data from a DynamoDB stream.
• dynamodb-tictactoe-example-app - Lightweight python app.
• dynamodb-titan-storage-backend 🔥 - Storage Backend for Titan.
• dynamodb-transactions 🔥 - Performs atomic writes and isolated reads across multiple items and tables.
• logstash-input-dynamodb - Logstash input plugin.

Community Repos:

• lyft/confidant 🔥🔥🔥 - Stores secrets, encrypted at rest.
• sebdah/dynamic-dynamodb 🔥🔥 - Provides auto-scaling.

Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Repos:

• aws-eb-glassfish-dockerfiles - GlassFish docker files.
• aws-eb-python-dockerfiles - Python docker files.
• eb-demo-php-simple-app - Simple PHP app.
• eb-docker-multiple-ports - Simple Node.js and Tomcat apps using Docker images.
• eb-docker-nginx-proxy - Simple PHP app using the PHP-FPM and Nginx Docker images.
• eb-docker-virtual-hosting - Simple PHP, Tomcat, and Nginx applications using Docker images.
• eb-node-express-sample - Sample express app.
• eb-node-express-signup - Express framework and Bootstrap Node.js sample app.
• eb-node-express - Sample app referenced in the Developer Guide.
• eb-py-flask-signup-worker - Python app that illustrates worker roles.
• eb-py-flask-signup 🔥 - Python signup form app with Flask and Bootstrap.
• eb-python-flask - Simple Python and Flask app.
• eb-wif-sample - Sample login app with Web Identity Federation.

Community Repos:

• alienfast/elastic-beanstalk 🔥 - Gem with rake configuration and deployment for rails apps.
• ThoughtWorksStudios/eb_deployer 🔥🔥 - Blue-green deployment automation.

Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS Repos:

• Contribute

Community Repos:

• ConradIrwin/aws-name-server 🔥🔥🔥 - DNS server that lets you look up instances by name.
• evannuil/aws-snapshot-tool 🔥 - Automates EBS snapshots and rotation.
• mirakui/ec2ssh 🔥 - SSH config manager.
• skavanagh/EC2Box 🔥🔥 - A web-based SSH console to manage multiple instances simultaneously.
• wbailey/claws 🔥 - CLI-driven console with capistrano integration.

Elastic Container Service

AWS Repos:

• amazon-ecs-agent 🔥🔥🔥 - Agent that runs on and starts containers.
• amazon-ecs-amazon-efs - Persists Data from containers.
• amazon-ecs-init - RPM developed to support the Amazon ECS Container Agent.
• ecs-cloudwatch-logs - Assets from the blog using Amazon ECS and Amazon CloudWatch logs.
• ecs-demo-php-simple-app - Simple PHP app.
• ecs-mesos-scheduler-driver 🔥 - Integrates Apache Mesos.
• ecs-task-kite - Simple ambassador container for inter-task communication.
• lambda-ecs-worker-pattern - Extends Lambda using SQS and ECS.
• py-flask-signup-docker - Python sample app.
• service-discovery-ecs-consul - Assets from the blog Service Discovery via Consul with Amazon ECS.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Elastic File System

AWS Repos:

• amazon-ecs-amazon-efs - Persist data from ECS.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Elastic MapReduce

AWS Repos:

• emr-bootstrap-actions 🔥🔥 - Sample bootstrap actions.
• emr-sample-apps - Sampe apps.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Elastic Search

AWS Repos:

• logstash-output-amazon_es - Logstash output plugin to sign and export events.
• opsworks-elasticsearch-cookbook - OpsWorks Elasticsearch sample cookbook.

Community Repos:

• elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-aws 🔥🔥🔥 - Plugin for Elasticsearch.

Elasticache

AWS Repos:

• aws-elasticache-cluster-client-libmemcached - Libmemcached library support.
• aws-elasticache-cluster-client-memcached-for-java - Client for Java.
• aws-elasticache-cluster-client-memcached-for-php - Enhanced PHP library connecting to ElastiCache.
• elasticache-cluster-config-net - Config object for Enyim's MemcachedClient to enable auto discovery.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Glacier

Community Repos:

• vsespb/mt-aws-glacier 🔥🔥 - Perl Multithreaded Multipart sync to Glacier.

Kinesis

AWS Repos:

• amazon-kinesis-aggregators 🔥 - Provides a simple way to create real time aggregations.
• amazon-kinesis-client-net - Client Library for .NET.
• amazon-kinesis-client-nodejs - Client Library for Node.js.
• amazon-kinesis-client-python 🔥 - Client Library for Python.
• amazon-kinesis-client-ruby - Client Library for Ruby.
• amazon-kinesis-client 🔥 Client library for Amazon Kinesis.
• amazon-kinesis-connectors 🔥🔥 - Libary to integrate with other AWS and non-AWS services.
• amazon-kinesis-data-visualization-sample - Sample data visualization app.
• amazon-kinesis-learning - Learning Kinesis Development.
• amazon-kinesis-producer - Producer Library.
• amazon-kinesis-scaling-utils 🔥 - Provides the ability to scale streams.
• aws-fluent-plugin-kinesis - Fluent Plugin.
• dynamodb-streams-kinesis-adapter - DynamoDB Streams Adapter.
• kinesis-log4j-appender - Log4J Appender.
• kinesis-poster-worker - Simple multi-threaded Python Poster and Worker.
• kinesis-storm-spout - Spout for Storm.
• mqtt-kinesis-bridge - Simple MQTT bridge in Python.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Lambda

AWS Repos:

• amazon-elasticsearch-lambda-samples - Data ingestion for Elasticsearch from S3 and Kinesis.
• aws-lambda-java-libs - Official mirror for interface definitions and helper classes.
• aws-lambda-redshift-loader 🔥🔥 - Redshift loader.
• create-thumbnails-lambda - Uses the grunt-aws-lambda plugin to help you develop and test.
• lambda-ecs-worker-pattern - Extends Lambda using SQS and ECS.
• lambda-refarch-fileprocessing - Reference Architecture for Real-time File Processing.
• lambda-refarch-iotbackend - Reference Architecture for creating an IoT Backend.
• lambda-refarch-mobilebackend 🔥 - Reference Architecture for creating a Mobile Backend.
• lambda-refarch-webapp 🔥 - Reference Architecture for creating a Web Application.

Community Repos:

• apex/apex 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Minimal AWS Lambda function manager with Go support.
• cloudnative/lambda-chat 🔥🔥 - A chat application without servers.
• danilop/LambdAuth 🔥🔥🔥 - Sample authentication service.
• garnaat/kappa 🔥🔥🔥 - Kappa is a CLI tool that makes it easier to deploy, update, and test functions for AWS Lambda.
• mentum/lambdaws 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Deploy, run and get results in a breeze.
• Miserlou/Zappa 🔥🔥🔥 - Serverless WSGI Python Web Apps with AWS Lambda + API Gateway.
• serverless/serverless 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The Serverless Application Framework (formerly JAWS).
• Tim-B/grunt-aws-lambda 🔥🔥 - Grunt plugin.

Machine Learning

AWS Repos:

• machine-learning-samples 🔥🔥 - Sample apps.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Mobile Analytics

AWS Repos:

• aws-sdk-mobile-analytics-js - JavaScript SDK.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

OpsWorks

AWS Repos:

• opsworks-attribute-customization - Attribute customization example.
• opsworks-capistrano - Capistrano with instances.
• opsworks-cloudwatch-logs-cookbooks - CloudWatch sample cookbook.
• opsworks-cookbooks 🔥🔥🔥 - Chef Cookbooks.
• opsworks-demo-php-photo-share-app - Simple PHP photo share app.
• opsworks-demo-php-simple-app - Simple PHP app.
• opsworks-demo-rails-photo-share-app - A sample Rails app.
• opsworks-elasticsearch-cookbook - Elasticsearch sample cookbook.
• opsworks-example-cookbooks - Cookbooks used with the sample apps.
• opsworks-first-cookbook - Cookbook used to demonstrate simple recipes.
• opsworks-windows-demo- - A sample Node.JS app.
• opsworks-windows-demo-cookbooks - Cookbooks for Windows.
• todo-sample-app-cookbooks - Custom cookbooks associated with the todo-sample-app.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

Redshift

AWS Repos:

• aws-lambda-redshift-loader 🔥🔥 - Lambda database loader.
• amazon-redshift-utils 🔥🔥 - Applies optimal Column Encoding to existing Tables.

Community Repos:

• getredash/redash 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - A web application that allows to easily query an existing database, share the dataset and visualize it in different ways. Initially was developed to work with Redshift, and has great support for it.
• everythingMe/redshift_console - A simple tool to monitor and manage a Redshift cluster. The first release has basic tools to monitor running queries, WLM queue and your tables/schemas.

Route 53

AWS Repos:

• route53-infima 🔥 - Manages service-level fault isolation.

Community Repos:

• barnybug/cli53 🔥🔥🔥 - cli53 is a command line tool for Amazon Route 53 which provides import and export from BIND format and simple command line management of Route 53 domains.
• winebarrel/roadworker 🔥 - Roadworker is a tool to manage Route53. It defines the state of Route53 using DSL, and updates Route53 according to DSL.

S3

Community Repos:

• anomalizer/ngx_aws_auth 🔥 - Implements proxying of authenticated requests.
• bloomreach/s4cmd 🔥🔥 - S3 command line tool, faster than S3cmd for large files.
• CulturalMe/meteor-slingshot 🔥🔥 - Upload files in meteor.
• grippy/node-s3 - Node.js app to manage buckets.
• littlstar/s3renity - Batch functions with concurrency control (each, map, reduce, filter, join)
• marcel/aws-s3 🔥🔥🔥 - Ruby implementation of Amazon's S3 REST API.
• mardix/flask-cloudy 🔥 - Flask extension.
• MathieuLoutre/grunt-aws-s3 🔥🔥 - Grunt plugin.
• minio/mc 🔥🔥 - Minio Client for filesystem and cloud storage.
• mumrah/s3-multipart 🔥 - Parallel upload/download to S3 via Python.
• pgherveou/gulp-awspublish 🔥🔥 - Gulp plugin.
• rlmcpherson/s3gof3r 🔥🔥🔥 - Fast, concurrent, streaming access, includes a CLI.
• s3tools/s3cmd 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - CLI for managing S3 and CloudFront.
• schickling/git-s3 🔥 - Deploy your git repo to a bucket.
• sorentwo/carrierwave-aws 🔥 - Adapter for CarrierWave.
• spring-projects/aws-maven 🔥 - Maven Wagon for S3.
• tongwang/s3fs-c 🔥 - Mounts buckets for use on a local file system.
• twpayne/s3-parallel-put 🔥 - CLI that supports parallel uploads.
• weavejester/clj-aws-s3 🔥 - Client library for Clojure.

SES

Community Repos:

• drewblas/aws-ses 🔥🔥 - Provides an easy ruby DSL & interface.

Simple Workflow

AWS Repos:

• aws-flow-ruby 🔥 - Creates background jobs and multistep workflows.
• aws-flow-ruby-samples - AWS Flow Framework for Ruby samples.
• aws-flow-ruby-opsworks-helloworld - Hello World sample.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

SimpleDB

Community Repos:

• rjrodger/simpledb 🔥 - Node.js library.

SNS

AWS Repos:

• aws-php-sns-message-validator - Message validation for PHP.

Community Repos:

• Contribute

SQS

AWS Repos:

• amazon-sqs-java-messaging-lib - Holds the Java Message Service to communicate with SQS.

Community Repos:

• phstc/shoryuken 🔥🔥🔥 - A super efficient SQS thread based message processor for Ruby.

Data

Community Repos:

• donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Big data/data science notebooks.
• everpeace/vagrant-mesos 🔥🔥 - Spin up your Mesos Cluster with Vagrant.
• jhorey/ferry 🔥🔥 - Define, run, and deploy big data apps using Docker.
• nathanmarz/storm-deploy 🔥🔥 - One click deploy for Storm clusters.

DevOps

Community Repos:

• chef-cookbooks/aws 🔥🔥 - Development repository for aws Chef cookbook.
• colinbjohnson/aws-missing-tools 🔥🔥🔥 - Tools for managing resources including EC2, EBS, RDS and Route53.
• k1LoW/awspec 🔥🔥 - RSpec tests your resources.
• mitchellh/vagrant-aws 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Use Vagrant to manage your EC2 and VPC instances.
• NixOS/nixops 🔥🔥 - Use NixOS to provision EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and other resources.

Security

AWS Repos:

• aws-sha256-agentcs - SHA256 Agent Compatibility Ccanner.
• aws-tvm-anonymous - Token Vending Machine for Anonymous Registration.
• aws-tvm-identity - Token Vending Machine for Identity Registration.
• s2n 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols.

Community Repos:

• AdRoll/hologram 🔥🔥 - Easy, painless credentials on developer laptops.
• cloudsploit/scans 🔥 - Detects security risks.
• iSECPartners/Scout2 🔥🔥 - Security auditing tool.
• Netflix/security_monkey 🔥🔥🔥 - Monitors policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations.
• sebsto/AWSVPN 🔥 - Start a private VPN server in the cloud.

Accompanying Repos

AWS Repos:

Repos Accompanying Blogs, Training Events, and Conferences.

• aws-arch-backoff-simulator - Jitter and backoff Simulator for AWS architecture blog.
• aws-big-data-blog 🔥 - Samples from the AWS Big Data Blog.
• aws-demo-php-simple-app - PHP apps from the AWS Blogs.
• aws-mobile-sample-wif - Samples from the AWS Mobile SDK blog.
• aws-mobile-self-paced-labs-samples - Android Snake Game from a self-paced lab.
• aws-quickstart - Official repository for AWS Quick Start.
• aws-spot-labs - Best practices using AWS Spot Instances.
• aws-training-demo - Demos from the Technical Trainers community.
• java-meme-generator-sample - Meme generation app from re:Invent 2012.
• railsconf2013-tech-demo 🔥 - Seahorse demo from RailsConf 2013.
• reinvent2013-js-blog-demo - Demo blogging app from re:Invent 2013.
• reinvent2013-mobile-photo-share - Mobile photo share app from re:Invent 2014.
• reinvent2014-scalable-site-management - Scalable site management sample from re:Invent 2014.
• reinvent2015-dev309 - Large Scale Metrics Analysis from re:Invent 2015.
• timely-security-analytics - Security analytics sample from 2015 re:Invent 2015.
• todo-app-railsconf - Simple "Todo" app from RailsConf 2015.
• todo-sample-app - Simple "Todo" app from RailsConf 2014.

Community Repos:

• startup-class/setup 🔥🔥 - EC2 setup files for Startup Engineering MOOC.

Miscellaneous Repos

AWS Repos:

• amediamanager - Media manager.
• aws-hal-client-java - Java client for the Hypertext Application Language.
• aws-model-validators - Tools for validating the AWS service JSON model files.
• aws-sdk-js-sample-video-transcoder - Sample cross-platform video transcoder app.
• simplebeerservice - Cloud-connected kegerator that streams live sensor data to AWS.

Community Repos:

• bcoe/thumbd 🔥🔥 - Node.js/ImageMagick-based image thumbnailing service.
• Comcast/cmb 🔥🔥 - Highly available, horizontally scalable queuing and notification service.
• donnemartin/dev-setup 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Mac setup of various developer tools and AWS services.
• dtan4/terraforming 🔥🔥🔥 - Export existing resources to Terraform style (tf, tfstate).
• j2labs/microarmy 🔥 - Deploy micro instances to launch a coordinated siege.
• jpillora/grunt-aws 🔥 - Grunt interface into the Node.JS SDK.
• jvehent/haproxy-aws 🔥 - Documentation on building a HTTPS stack with HAProxy.
• meducation/propono 🔥🔥 - Easy-to-use pub/sub in Ruby.
• mozilla/awsbox 🔥🔥🔥 - A featherweight PaaS on top of EC2 for deploying node apps.
• Netflix/aminator 🔥🔥🔥 - A tool for creating EBS AMIs.
• Netflix/archaius 🔥🔥🔥 - Library for configuration management API.
• Netflix/asgard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Web interface for application deployments and cloud management.
• Netflix/aws-autoscaling 🔥🔥 - Tools for using auto scaling and documentation best practices.
• Netflix/eureka 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.
• Netflix/EVCache 🔥🔥 - A distributed in-memory data store.
• Netflix/Fenzo 🔥🔥 - Extensible Scheduler for Mesos Frameworks.
• Netflix/ice 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Usage and cost monitoring tool.
• Netflix/ribbon 🔥🔥🔥 - Remote procedure call library with built in software load balancers.
• Netflix/SimianArmy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Tools to keep your cloud operating in top form.
• Netflix/zuul 🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Edge service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.
• niftylettuce/gulp-aws-splash 🔥🔥 - Open-source LaunchRock alternative. Build beautiful splash pages.
• puppetlabs/puppetlabs-aws 🔥 - Puppet module for managing resources to build out infrastructure.
• react-server-routing-example 🔥 - Sample universal client/server routing and data in React.
• spulec/moto 🔥🔥🔥 - Allows your python tests to easily mock out the boto library.

Guides, Books, Documentation, and Training

How-to's, training, whitepapers, docs, and case studies.

Getting Started Guides

AWS Guides:

• Getting Started with AWS
• Getting Started Tutorials
  • Run a Virtual Server
  • Store Files
  • Share Digital Media
  • Deploy a Website
  • Host a Website (Linux)
  • Host a Website (Windows)
  • Run a Database
  • Analyze Your Data

Community Guides:

• Contribute

General Guides

AWS Guides:

• Analyzing Big Data
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Web Server Log Analysis
• Working with the AWS Management Console
• Deploying a Web App Using Elastic Beanstalk
• Hosting a Web App
• Hosting a .NET Web App
• Hosting a Static Website
• Quick Start Deployment Guides

Community Guides:

• Contribute

Books

• Amazon Web Services in Action Manning or Amazon.com

Whitepapers

• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Whitepapers

Documentation

• Documentation
• AWS Billing and Cost Management
• AWS Marketplace
• AWS Support
• AWS General Reference
• AWS Glossary

Training

• Training and Certification
• Webinars

Case Studies: Powered by AWS

• Adobe
• AdRoll
• Airbnb
• Autodesk
• AWS
• Citrix
• Comcast
• Coursera
• Docker
• Dow Jones
• Dropbox
• Dropcam
• Expedia
• Foursquare
• IMDb
• Intuit
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lionsgate
• mlbam
• NASA
• Netflix
• Nike
• Nokia
• PBS
• Pfizer
• Philips
• Reddit
• Samsung
• Siemens
• Slack
• Spotify
• Swiftkey
• The Weather Company
• Ticketmaster
• Time Inc
• Twilio
• U.S. Department of State
• Ubisoft
• Yelp
• Zillow

Social

Blogs, discussion groups, conferences, and social media.

Blogs

AWS Blogs:

• Official Blog
  • Brasil
  • China
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • Korea
• Application Management
• Architecture
• Big Data
• Compute
• Mobile
• SES
• Java
• PHP
• Ruby
• Security
• Startup
• .NET
• Partner Network
• SAP
• Startup collection

Community Blogs:

• All Things Distributed - Werner Vogels, AWS CTO.
• Things I Like... - Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist.
• Netflix Tech Blog
• A Curated List of Engineering Blogs
• Contribute

Twitter Influencers

AWS Tweeps:

• @awscloud - Official Twitter feed.
• @AWS_Partners
• @AWSIdentity
• @AWSMarketplace
• @AWSreInvent - Official Twitter account for re:Invent.
• @AWSStartups
• @ajassy - Andy Jassy: Senior Vice-President.
• @Ianmmmm - Ian Massingham - Technical Evangelist.
• @jeffbarr - Jeff Barr: Chief Evangelist.
• @mndoci - Deepak Singh: GM EC2.
• @mza - Matt Wood: Product Strategy.
• @Werner - Werner Vogels: CTO.
• Community heroes, Evangelists, etc

Community Tweeps:

• @kennwhite
• @esh
• @garnaat

Facebook Pages

AWS Pages:

• amazonwebservices - Official Facebook page.
• awsreinvent - Official Facebook page for re:Invent.

Community Pages:

• Contribute

YouTube Channels

AWS Channels:

• AmazonWebServices
• AWSDeutsch
• AWSJapan
• AWSKorea
• AWSLatinAmerica
• AWSTutorialSeries
• AWSWebinars

Community Channels:

• Backspace Academy
• Cloud Academy
• Linux Academy

LinkedIn Groups

AWS Page:

• Amazon Web Services

Community Groups:

• Amazon AWS Architects
• Amazon AWS Architects, Engineers, Developers, Consultants, Entrepreneurs Experts
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Business
• Amazon Web Services Architects
• Amazon Web Services Community Network
• Amazon Web Services Enthusiasts
• Amazon Web Services Users

Subreddits

• /r/aws/
• /r/AWS_cloud/

Conferences

AWS Conferences:

• re:Invent - Annual user conference. The event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, over 250 technical sessions, a partner expo, after hours activities, and more.
• Summits - Global one-day events that are designed to educate new customers about the AWS platform and offer existing customers deep technical content to be more successful with AWS.
• AWSome Day - Global one-day events are delivered by AWS Education's technical instructors and are ideal for IT pros, developers and technical managers who would like to learn about how to get started in the AWS Cloud.

Community Conferences:

• Contribute

Latest KPIs and Stats

Latest key performance indicators and other interesting stats.

• Over 1 million customers active in past 30 days.¹
• $7B+ annual revenue run-rate business.¹
  • 81% year over year revenue growth.¹
• EC2 usage up 95% year over year.¹
• S3 data transfer up 120% year over year.¹
  • S3 holds trillions of objects and regularly peaks at 1.5 million requests per second.²
• Database services usage up 127% year over year.¹
  • $1B annual revenue run-rate business.¹
• 2 million new EBS volumes created per day.⁴
• Customers have launched more than 15 million Hadoop clusters.³
• 102Tbps network capacity into a data center.²
• 500+ major new features and services launched since 2014.¹
• All 14 other cloud providers combined have 1/5th the aggregate capacity of AWS.²
• Every day, AWS adds enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon's global infrastructure when it was a $7B annual revenue enterprise (in 2004).²

Appendix of Core Services

Appendix of official services, grouped by service category.

Services in Plain English

• Amazon Web Services in Plain English - Entertaining and educational, a community contribution.

Compute Services

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Provides scalable virtual private servers using Xen.
• Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) - Supports Docker containers on EC2 instances.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Provides quick deployment and management of applications in the cloud.
• Amazon Lambda - Runs code in response to events and automatically manages EC2 instances.
• Auto Scaling - Launches or terminates EC2 instances based on policies, schedules, and health checks.
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Creates a logically isolated set of EC2 instances which can be connected to an existing network using a VPN connection.

Networking Services

• AWS Direct Connect - Provides dedicated connections to AWS for faster and cheaper data throughput.
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
• Amazon Route 53 - Provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Creates a logically isolated set of EC2 instances which can be connected to an existing network using a VPN connection.

Enterprise Applications

• Amazon WorkSpaces - Provides a cloud-based desktop experience to end-users.
• Amazon Workspaces Application Manager (WAM) - Simplifies deployment and management of WorkSpaces.
• Amazon WorkDocs - Provides a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service.
• Amazon WorkMail - Provides managed email and calendaring service.

Analytics Services

• Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) - Hosts a Hadoop and Spark framework running on EC2 and S3.
• AWS Data Pipeline - Provides workload management by processing and moving data between services.
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES) - Managed Elasticsearch, a popular open-source search and analytics engine.
• Amazon Kinesis - Provides real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams.
• Amazon Kinesis Firehose - Captures and automatically loads streaming data into S3 and Redshift.
• Amazon Machine Learning - Provides managed machine learning technology.
• Amazon Redshift - Provides petabyte-scale data warehousing with columnar storage and multi-node compute.
• Amazon Quicksight - Provides cloud-powered business intelligence for 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions.

Management Tools

• Amazon CloudWatch - Provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications, starting with EC2.
• Amazon CloudFormation - Provides a file-based interface for provisioning other resources.
• AWS CloudTrail - Provides logs of all activity.
• AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) - Provides a CLI to manage all services.
• AWS Config - Provides a detailed view of all resources.
• AWS Management Console (AWS Console) - A web-based interface to manage all services.
• AWS OpsWorks - Provides configuration of EC2 services using Chef.
• AWS Service Catalog - AWS Service Catalog allows IT administrators to create, manage, and distribute portfolios of approved products to end users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal.

Security and Identity Services

• Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) - An implicit service, the authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.
• AWS Directory Service - A managed service that allows you to connect your AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up a new, stand-alone directory in the AWS Cloud.
• Amazon Inspector - An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
• Amazon CloudHSM - Helps meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS) - A managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.
• AWS WAF - A web application firewall service that monitors and manages CloudFront distributions.
• Trusted Advisor - Helps you observe best practices by inspecting your environment for saving costs, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps.

Internet of Things Service

• AWS IoT - Enables secure, bi-directional communication between internet-connected things (such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, or smart appliances) and the AWS cloud over MQTT and HTTP.

Mobile Services

• AWS Mobile Hub - Provides an integrated console that helps you build, test, and monitor your mobile apps.
• Amazon API Gateway - Service for publishing, maintaining and securing web service APIs.
• Amazon Cognito - Provides user identity and data synchronization.
• AWS Device Farm - App testing service for iOS, Android and Fire OS apps on physical devices.
• Amazon Mobile Analytics - Service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data.
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Provides a hosted multi-protocol "push" messaging for applications.

Storage and Content Delivery Services

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - Provides Web Service based storage.
• Amazon CloudFront - A content delivery network (CDN) for distributing objects to locations near the requester.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Provides persistent block-level storage volumes for EC2.
• Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) - A file storage service for EC2 instances.
• Amazon Glacier - Provides a low-cost, long-term storage option, intended for archiving data.
• AWS Import/Export - Accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.
• AWS Storage Gateway - An iSCSI block storage virtual appliance with cloud-based backup.

Databases

• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - Provides a scalable database server with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB support.
• AWS Schema Conversion Tool - App that helps you convert your database schema from an Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database, to an RDS MySQL DB instance or an Aurora DB cluster.
• Amazon DynamoDB - Provides a scalable, low-latency NoSQL online Database Service backed by SSDs.
• Amazon ElastiCache - Provides in-memory caching for web apps (Memcached, Redis).
• Amazon Redshift - Provides petabyte-scale data warehousing with columnar storage and multi-node compute.
• Amazon SimpleDB - Allows developers to run queries on structured data.

Application Services

• Amazon API Gateway - Service for publishing, maintaining and securing web service APIs.
• Amazon AppStream - Flexible, low-latency streaming service for apps and games.
• Amazon CloudSearch - Provides basic full-text search and indexing of textual content.
• Amazon DevPay - Provides billing and account management.
• Amazon Elastic Transcoder (ETS) - Provides video transcoding of S3 hosted videos.
• Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) - Provides an interface for micropayments.
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) - Provides bulk and transactional email sending.
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Provides a hosted multi-protocol "push" messaging for applications.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Provides a hosted message queue for web applications.
• Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) - A workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications.

Developer Tools

• AWS CodeCommit - Hosted Git version control service.
• AWS CodeDeploy - Provides automated code deployment to EC2 instances.
• AWS CodePipeline - Continuous delivery service.
• AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) - Provides a CLI to manage all services.

Miscellaneous Services

• Amazon Fulfillment Web Service - Provides a programmatic web service for sellers to ship items to and from Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon.
• Amazon Mechanical Turk - Manages small units of work distributed among many persons.
• Amazon Product Advertising API - Provides access to product data and electronic commerce functionality.
• AWS Partner Network (APN) - Provides partners with the technical information and sales and marketing support to increase business opportunities.

Credits

Check out the Credits page.

Other Awesome Lists

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