aws-tools

This repository includes some tools and sample code I created for building with AWS.
All notable changes to this project will be documented in CHANGELOG.

Jump to:

• Built with
• To run the scripts
  • AWS Login with saml2aws-multi
  • For running Python scripts
  • For running CLI tools and shell scripts
• My notes
• Quick links for news, blogs and resources

Built with

• Python, Shell, PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Docker
• AWS CDK v2, AWS SAM
• cfn-lint is used for to validating CloudFormation templates.
• CodeQL is enabled in this repository.
• Dependabot is enabled for auto dependency updates.
• Gitleaks and TruffleHog are enabled in this GitHub Actions workflow for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets.
• Snyk is enabled in this GitHub Actions workflow for vulnerability scanning and auto pull-request

To run the scripts

AWS login

• saml2aws-multi is my version of AWS login tool providing an easy-to-use command line interface to support login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials for multiple roles of different accounts with saml2aws.

For running Python scripts

• Most of the Python scripts support processing multiple AWS accounts (via AWS profiles in ~/.aws/credentials) and AWS regions using AwsApiHelper in the common helper.aws.AwsApiHelper module.
• Tested with Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
• To start, install dependencies by running:

  pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  

• Set aliases (optional):

  source .aliases
  

For running CLI tools and shell scripts

• To start, install dependencies by running:

  pip3 install -r requirements-cli.txt
  

My notes

• My notes of each service is in its folder respectively.
• Some specific topics (no folder)
  • App Mesh
  • Closing Account
  • ECS vs. EKS
  • Encryption
  • Mutual Transport Layer Security (mutual TLS or mTLS) authentication
  • Networking
  • Other useful tools
  • Security
  • Serverless
  • Service Limits
  • Visualisation

Quick links for news, blogs and resources

• What's New with AWS? | feed https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/feed/
• AWS Architecture Blog
• Amazon Serverless Land Blogs
• AWS re:Post
• Cloud Pegboard
• AWS Edge Chat

AWS design + build tools

• AWS Workshops
• AWS Architecture Center
• AWS Solutions Library
• Amazon Builder's Library
• AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Serverless Land
• AWS Application Composer (Preview)

Other AWS related tools

• AWS CLI interactive productivity booster (aws-shell) awslabs/aws-shell
• AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) Software Development Kit (SDK) is a set of libraries and documentation for you to build - AWS Deployment Framework (ADF) awslabs/aws-deployment-framework
• AWS Distributed Load Testing - awslabs/distributed-load-testing-on-aws
• AWS ParallelCluster (enhanced version of CfnCluster) aws/aws-parallelcluster
• AWS Proton Sample Templates - aws-samples/aws-proton-sample-templates
• AWS Proton Sample Fargate Templates - aws-samples/aws-proton-sample-fargate-service
• AWS Region Comparison Tool - https://region-comparison-tool.com/
• AWS SaaS Boost - awslabs/aws-saas-boost
• Amazon Honeycode - builder.honeycode.aws - RETIRED
• AutoML Toolkit for Deep Learning - awslabs/autogluon live video solutions on AWS - aws/aws-cdi-sdk
• awscii - render predefined AWS graphs in ASCII art - mhlabs/awscii-cli
• bash-my-aws - bash-my-universe/bash-my-aws

Best Practices Guides

• AWS Well-Architected Framework - Operational Excellence, AWS
• Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security, AWS
• AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA), AWS, JUN 2021
• Security Overview of AWS Lambda: An In-Depth Look at AWS Lambda Security, AWS, JAN 2021
• Best practices for working with Amazon Aurora Serverless, AWS, 27 NOV 2020
• Tagging Best Practices, AWS, DEC 2018

Data Sources

• Registry of Open Data on AWS - registry.opendata.aws
• Landset 8 satellite imagery of all land on Earth - registry.opendata.aws/landsat-8, landsatonaws.com