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AWS Expert - List of resources

This repository is a list of tools to improve your AWS Enviroments and links to best practice/common approaches to AWS development and operations.

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List of tools

This list of tools are used by our AWS Expert members.

Infrastructure as Code


  • Pulumi Build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications and infrastructure using familiar languages, tools, and engineering practices.

  • Terraform Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

  • Ansible

  • AWSCDK

  • CrossPlane

Cloudformation

  • TaskCat Taskcat is a tool that tests AWS CloudFormation templates. It deploys your AWS CloudFormation template in multiple AWS Regions and generates a report with a pass/fail grade for each region

  • cfn-lint Validate AWS CloudFormation yaml/json templates against the AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification and additional checks.

  • Cloudformation Guard Guard offers a policy-as-code domain-specific language (DSL) to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON plans/configurations against those rules.

  • cfn_nag The cfn-nag tool looks for patterns in CloudFormation templates that may indicate insecure infrastructure.

AWS Cloud Development Kit

  • CDK Watchful Watchful is an AWS CDK construct library that makes it easy to monitor CDK apps. It automatically synthesizes alarms and dashboards for supported AWS resources.

  • CDK Nag Check CDK applications for best practices using a combination of available rule packs. Inspired by cfn_nag

Dev Tools


  • Serverless Dev Tools The Developer Tools for the Serverless World - think Chrome Dev Tools but for Serverless.

  • AWS Lambda Power Tuning AWS Lambda Power Tuning is an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions. It runs in your own AWS account - powered by AWS Step Functions - and it supports three optimization strategies: cost, speed, and balanced

  • IAM Floyd AWS IAM policy statement generator with fluent interface

Management & Governance


  • superwerker Open-source solution to automate the setup of an multiacount AWS Cloud environment with prescriptive best practices.

List of resources


Online links for helping you secure, operate, develop and manage AWS

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