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1. awesome-aws

   1 4 12,972 2.6 Python

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

   

   Project mention: Awesome Kubernetes Resources !!! 🔥 | dev.to | 2025-03-18

   Inspired by awesome list and donnemartin/awesome-aws.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. checkov

   2 63 7,729 9.9 Python

   Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

   

   Project mention: Ditched Terraform for OpenTofu. Why Devs Everywhere Are Making the Same Move (cheatsheet included) | dev.to | 2025-06-19

   Checkov https://www.checkov.io A static analysis tool to scan infrastructure code for misconfigs, secrets, and best practice violations.

4. troposphere

   3 19 4,951 8.4 Python

   troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions

   

   Project mention: YAML: The Norway Problem (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-12

   There are probably two use cases.

   Configuration files for programs. These tend to be short.

   DSLs which are large manifests for things like cloud infrastructure. These tend to be long, they grow over time.

   My pet hypothesis is these DSLs exist mostly for neutrality - the vendor can't assume you have Python or something present. But as a user, you can assume just that and gain a lot by authoring in a proper language and generating YAML.

   See https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere for a great example for AWS CloudFormation.

5. cfn-python-lint

   4 21 2,557 9.6 Python

   CloudFormation Linter

   

   Project mention: What is an AWS CloudFormation Template? | dev.to | 2025-01-27

   For more complex validations, as well as basic syntax checks, you can use additional tools in your CI/CD pipelines, such as CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) and CloudFormation Rain (rain fmt). Another way to validate your templates is to use an IDE extension to provide real-time validation during authoring.

6. Udacity-Data-Engineering-Projects

   5 5 1,618 0.0 Python

   Few projects related to Data Engineering including Data Modeling, Infrastructure setup on cloud, Data Warehousing and Data Lake development.

   

7. sceptre

   6 6 1,516 7.4 Python

   Build better AWS infrastructure

   

8. taskcat

   7 5 1,193 7.1 Python

   Test all the CloudFormation things! (with TaskCat)

   

9. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

10. aws-sso-util

    8 6 1,002 4.5 Python

    Smooth out the rough edges of AWS SSO (temporarily, until AWS makes it better).

    

11. startup-kit-templates

    9 1 836 0.0 Python

    CloudFormation templates to accelerate getting started on AWS.

    

12. cloudformation-cli

    10 3 336 4.5 Python

    The CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit allows you to author your own resource providers and modules that can be used by CloudFormation.

    

    Project mention: A Guide to Effective Use of the Terraform AWS Cloud Control Provider | dev.to | 2024-09-22

    Even though the AWS CC Provider covers new AWS services quickly, there’s still a lot of room for improvement when it comes to older services. According to this GitHub issue, as of October 2023, the Cloud Control API supports only 859 resources, many of which are not supported in all AWS regions. According to Resource types that support Cloud Control API, as of July 2024 it supports 1034 resources, which is encouraging to see. However, there is still a list of suppressed resources that are not compatible with how the AWS CC Provider generates resources, bringing the actual supported number of resources to around 1,000. Compared to about 1,400 resources supported by the AWS Provider, that's only about 70% coverage and less if you consider resources that haven't been implemented in the AWS Provider.

13. aws-tutorial-code

    11 1 232 4.4 Python

    AWS tutorial code.

    

14. runway

    12 1 172 9.5 Python

    Simplify infrastructure/app deployment.

    

15. emr-serverless-samples

    13 4 166 7.1 Python

    Example code for running Spark and Hive jobs on EMR Serverless.

    

16. sumologic-aws-lambda

    14 1 151 8.4 Python

    A collection of lambda functions to collect data from Cloudwatch, Kinesis, VPC Flow logs, S3, security-hub and AWS Inspector

    

17. sagemaker-run-notebook

    15 2 143 0.0 Python

    Tools to run Jupyter notebooks as jobs in Amazon SageMaker - ad hoc, on a schedule, or in response to events

    

18. aws-leastprivilege

    16 5 111 3.4 Python

    Generates an IAM policy for the CloudFormation service role that adheres to least privilege.

    

19. observability-with-amazon-opensearch

    17 1 85 7.2 Python

    This repository contains a microservice-based Sample App demonstrating observability capabilities in the Amazon OpenSearch Service.

    

20. lights-off-aws

    18 1 63 7.8 Python

    Stop EC2 instances and RDS/Aurora databases overnight by tagging them with cron schedules, to cut AWS costs. Trigger CloudFormation stack updates and AWS Backup, too.

    

21. cfplot

    19 5 48 5.2 Python

    A simple tool to generate waterfall graphs of CloudFormation Templates

    

22. aws-cloudformation-templates

    20 3 34 5.1 Python

    Cloud Formation Templates for getting you started in AWS with Fortinet. (by fortinet)

    

23. paco

    21 1 33 2.8 Python

    Paco: Prescribed automation for cloud orchestration (by waterbear-cloud)

    

24. aws-system-manager-automation-unencrypted-to-encrypted-resources

    22 1 28 0.0 Python

    Examples to help automate encrypting unencrypted resources.

    

    Project mention: Encrypting EBS Volumes of Amazon EC2 Instances Using Python | dev.to | 2025-01-19

    aws-samples/aws-system-manager-automation-unencrypted-to-encrypted-resources - an AWS solution that automatically remediates unencrypted EBS and RDS resources using AWS Config and SSM Automation.

25. vscode-cloudformation-snippets

    23 3 28 8.3 Python

    This extension adds snippets for all the AWS CloudFormation resources into Visual Studio Code.

    

26. SaaSHub

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    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    

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