AWS Open Source
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AWS open source news and updates #113
May 20, 2022 | 15 minute read
May 13th, 2022 - Instalment #113 Newsletter #113. A little later than usual this week thanks to KubeCon, #113 of the AWS open source newsletter provides you with yet more new open source projects. “aws-iam-utils” is a Python library to help you work with IAM, “iot-app-kit” is a new IoT visualisation framework, “s3pathlib-project” that provides the Pythonic objective oriented programming (OOP) interface to manipulate AWS S3 object / directory, “collaboration-chambers-on-aws” which is a cool and very comprehensive project to help you do Scale-Out Computing on AWS, and many more!
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AWS open source news and updates #112
May 13, 2022 | 14 minute read
May 13th, 2022 - Instalment #112 Newsletter #112. Welcome to this weeks round up of AWS open source news. This weeks new projects features projects such as “aws-dataall” an open source framework for building a data marketplace, “backpack” a set of tools to help you work with the AWS Panorama devices, and we have other projects that help you automate DNS tasks, manage game servers, automate data ingestion, and more.
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Experimenting with digital lanyards - introducing the Badger2040
May 9, 2022 | 6 minute read
Experimenting with digital lanyards As someone who attends events on a regular basis, I have spent a fair bit of time over the years looking at interesting ways to engage with attendees. One of the problems I was looking to solve was how do I share useful information with attendees without having to interrupt the conversations (something that typically happens as I try and find those links on my mobile phone).
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AWS open source news and updates #111
May 6, 2022 | 15 minute read
May 6th, 2022 - Instalment #111 Newsletter #111. Welcome to edition #111 of the AWS open source newsletter, a bit later this week but that was so I could pack in even more great open source content. This week we have another round up of new open source projects from the AWS community that include tools to help you manage your AWS CloudFront distributions, resource providers for CloudFormation for Confluent users, managing Amazon Route53 via the command line, a nice tool for Rust developers working with AWS Lambda, a nice tool to help you find your CIDR address ranges, and many more including some great samples.
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AWS open source news and updates #110
Apr 29, 2022 | 14 minute read
April 29th, 2022 - Instalment #110 Newsletter #110. Welcome to edition #110 of the AWS open source newsletter. It has been a busy week, with the AWS Summit London happening this week (where I was lucky enough to do a session on Apache Airflow) meaning I am publishing this a little later than I had planned. We have more great new projects this week, including a project that helps make it easier to deploy your static and dynamic applications, a tool that provides help in managing the long term health of your AWS Data Lake, a cool project to help you replicate data from a Kinesis Data Stream across regions, a nice CloudWatch dashboard widget that summarises your CloudFormation stacks, and many more - so check them out.
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AWS open source news and updates #109
Apr 22, 2022 | 21 minute read
April 22nd, 2022 - Instalment #109 Newsletter #109. Welcome to edition #109 of the AWS open source newsletter. Big news, I have shaken things up and will be changing the publish date to Friday mornings, starting today with this edition. Over the months I have received some feedback about changing the published date to Fridays, so I am hoping this will give everyone plenty of time to check out the projects, read the posts and provide everyone with something to do over the weekend (if they want!
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AWS open source news and updates #108
Apr 11, 2022 | 16 minute read
April 11th, 2022 - Instalment #108 Newsletter #108. A little later the usual as it was a busy week last week, and I was lucky enough to speak at some great events. It certainly seems that things are returning to normality now on the tech events scene, and it was great to meet so many customers and builders who were enthusiastic champions of open source. The AWS Summit season is upon us, with the Brussels summit just gone and Paris Summit happening this week.
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AWS open source news and updates #107
Apr 4, 2022 | 17 minute read
April 4th, 2022 - Instalment #107 Newsletter #107. Welcome to edition #107 of the AWS open source newsletter, and we have a bumper edition this week packed with more great new open source projects and content for you to consume. Topics featured this week include optimising open source big data tools, developer tooling, case studies and we even some some great open source content for .NET core developers. This weeks projects include a really nice handy browser plugin called “aws-search-extension”, that lets you search and find developer information from the AWS docs, a tool that will help you detect whether you have configured or using dockershim in your Kubernetes clusters, a library to help you integrate Amazon Cognito in your Laravel PHP applications, and plenty more developer tools and sample projects.
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AWS open source news and updates #106
Mar 28, 2022 | 14 minute read
March 28th, 2022 - Instalment #106 Newsletter #106. Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, and this week we have more great new open source projects to tell you about. We have “access-undenied-aws”, a tool that helps you better understand your CloudTrail logs and suggest remediation. “aws-slack-clickoops-watcher” provides you with a way to alert you when changes are made to your AWS environment. “kronicle” provides a way of illustrating your tech stack automagically, and we have many more tools, demos and sample projects to help get you started on a number of topics.
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AWS open source news and updates #105
Mar 20, 2022 | 15 minute read
March 21st, 2022 - Instalment #105 Newsletter #105. Welcome to edition #105 of the AWS open source news and updates, where we bring you the latest open source projects, posts, events, and much more. This weeks new projects include the latest work in progress from AWS Hero Ian Mckay, “iamfast” is an AWS IAM policy generation tool that is in early stages but promises to be very useful indeed. “iasql-engine” is a tool that models cloud infrastructure as data, “ssm-patch-portal” provides a nice gui front end to simplify patching with AWS System Manager, a new crowdsource guide that contains learning resources for AWS, a business intelligence platform built using open source technologies from the NHS, and many more.
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AWS open source news and updates #104
Mar 14, 2022 | 17 minute read
March 14th, 2022 - Instalment #104 Newsletter #104. Welcome to #104 of the AWS open source news and updates newsletter, bringing you the latest updates from around the AWS and Communities. This week we have yet more great new open source projects, including a Deno runtime for your Lambda functions, data lineage and data testing tools, a performance testing tool for Apache Kafka, an ELT tool for Amazon Redshift, an Amazon S3 archive tool, and many more.
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AWS open source news and updates #103
Mar 7, 2022 | 15 minute read
March 7th, 2022 - Instalment #103 Newsletter #103. Welcome to edition #103 of the AWS open source news and updates. This weeks featured new open source projects include botocove (a decorator that helps you run your functions across your AWS accounts easily), functionless (a TypeScript plugin that transforms TypeScript code into Service-to-Service integrations), replibyte (a tool to replicate your PostgreSQL data), aws-security-bulletin-alert (notifies you of new AWS Security Bulletins) and sends out E-Mail notifications via Amazon SES), and many more.
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AWS open source news and updates #102
Feb 28, 2022 | 13 minute read
Feb 28th, 2022 - Instalment #102 Newsletter #102. Welcome to edition #102 of the AWS open source news and updates newsletter, and this week we have a super collection of new open source projects that I am really excited to share. First up we have the AWS DataOps Development Kit, which uses AWS CDK under the covers, and is an open source development framework to help you build data workflows. Threatmapper is an open source cloud native security observability platform, which looks easy to use and has some good visualisations.
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AWS open source news and updates #101
Feb 21, 2022 | 12 minute read
Feb 21st, 2022 - Instalment #101 Newsletter #101. There is nothing basic and fundamental about edition 101 of the AWS open source newsletter, with another great round up of new open source projects including eks-creation-engine from the folks at Lightspin helping you all to stay safer with this handy tool you should check out, idp-scim-sync to help users of AWS SSO who want to synchronise with their Google Workspace Directory, typecart an analysis tool for proof evolution and many other great projects and sample code.
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AWS open source news and updates #100
Feb 14, 2022 | 12 minute read
Feb 14th, 2022 - Instalment #100 Newsletter #100. Happy Valentines everyone, and welcome to this landmark 100st edition of this newsletter. This week we celebrate the love that many builders have for open source with more great new open source projects and content. Cuddle up to new projects that will help you build scalable systems, simplify your work with AWS DynamoDB, integrate your .NET applications with OpenSearch, keep on top of your VPC networks, and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #99
Feb 7, 2022 | 12 minute read
Feb 7th, 2022 - Instalment #99 Newsletter #99. While Nena gave you 99 red balloons, I give you the latest version of the AWS open source news letter. This week we feature more great new open source projects including a project to help you with drift detection in your CloudFormation stacks, new Terraform modules, an open-source prometheus exporter, some AWS CDK resources and sample projects and more. This weeks AWS and Community posts cover PostgreSQL, Apache Airflow, AWS CDK, Redis, GraphQL, Apollo GraphQL, Kubernetes, AWS EKS and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #98
Jan 29, 2022 | 14 minute read
Jan 31st, 2022 - Instalment #98 Newsletter #98. Welcome to another edition of AWS open source news and updates, featuring more new open source projects. This week, these include eventbridge-assistant (a VScode plugin to help you whilst you are developing with Amazon EventBridge), stratus-red-team (a tool you can use to emulate offensive attack techniques), critter (AWS Config rule integration testing), syne-tune-s3-transfer (an example of how to apply the distributed parameter search library to optimise download performance), karpenter-terraform (a Terraform module to help you automate deployment of karpenter), and a couple of super interesting open source solutions covering last mile delivery and software defined radio.
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AWS open source news and updates #97
Jan 22, 2022 | 12 minute read
Jan 22nd, 2022 - Instalment #97 Newsletter #97. Welcome to another edition of the AWS open source newsletter, packed with more great new open source projects, content, and events. This week, we have new projects that help you improve security by de-obfuscating strings, a library to help you automate the configuration of your build pipelines, a new Terraform module, a nice new VSCode plugin that will help you when working with IAM, and several more.
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AWS open source news and updates #96
Jan 17, 2022 | 14 minute read
Jan 17th, 2022 - Instalment #96 Newsletter #96. Welcome to another great round up of open source projects, news and great content. This week, we have new open source projects such as Event Catalog (that helps you to discover, explore and document your Event Driven Architectures), AWS Powertools for Lambda TypeScript edition, flowdog (an application/framework for inspection and manipulation of network traffic in AWS VPCs), ai-doorbell (a serverless AI enabled door bell) and many more.
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AWS open source news and updates #95
Jan 10, 2022 | 19 minute read
Jan 10th, 2022 - Instalment #95 Newsletter #95. Feliz Ano and a very happy new year to you all in this first newsletter in 2022. In this weeks update I reflect on some of the interesting stuff I learnt running this newsletter in 2021, before diving into the usual round up of new open source projects, AWS and community blog posts, videos and events. This weeks projects include tfdevops, a tool for Terraform uses to integrate with DevOps Guru, a tool to validate your custom container images on Amazon EMR, a Python wrapper for DynamoDB local and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #94
Dec 20, 2021 | 12 minute read
December 20th, 2021 - Instalment #94 Newsletter #94. This will be the last newsletter of 2021 before I break for Christmas and New Year. I hope you have found this newsletter a useful resource for finding out about new or interesting open source projects, both from what AWS contributes to, but also from the wider builder and open source developer communities. To finish up for 2021 we have more new open source projects, covering Amazon Location Services, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiment templates that are AWS CDK ready, Media Replay Engine (MRE)a really nice project to help you automate the creation of replays, a transcribe, post call analytics solution and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #93
Dec 13, 2021 | 11 minute read
December 13th, 2021 - Instalment #93 Updated Jan 18th, to remove dead links Newsletter #93. We took a week off last week to recover from re:Invent, so this week we have extensive coverage of the open source related news and announcements so be sure to check those out. This week we have some great new open source projects, from a project that will help you get started with data meshes, an alternative way to provide internet connectivity to those private subnets, a nice new CDK construct to quickly deploy single page applications and a cool IoT simulator solution which I know I am going to try out.
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AWS open source news and updates 92
Nov 29, 2021 | 12 minute read
November 29th, 2021 - Instalment #92 Updated 18th Jan, to remove dead links Newsletter #92. This is the re:Invent edition of the weekly newsletter, and whilst I am not there this year, I will still be covering all the announcements and topics of interest in this and next weeks newsletter. Outside of re:Invent, this weeks letter also brings you lots more new open source projects including something for DynamoDB fans, a serverless GraalVM project, a very nice AWS SSO project, new Grafana recipes and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #91
Nov 22, 2021 | 18 minute read
November 22nd, 2021 - Instalment #91 Newsletter #91. This week I feature eleven new open source projects, covering a diverse array of use cases. From securing your Kubernetes clusters, a couple of nifty Amazon Neptune tools, a Python library that provides state-of-the-art distributed hyper parameter optimising, a sample NFT marketplace and more. This weeks AWS community and AWS content features topics including AWS SAM, Bottlerocket, Babelfish, Apache Airflow, PartiQL, Suricata, Slurm, Apache Kafka, AWS Amplify, PHP and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #90
Nov 15, 2021 | 11 minute read
November 15th, 2021 - Instalment #90 Updated, 18th Jan to remove dead links Newsletter #90. Another packed edition of his newsletter, with some great new open source projects such as ploomber (a project to help you build production pipelines for your notebooks), slic-starter (a complete starter project for production-grade serverless applications) and many more interesting projects covering RStudio, Spring Boot, a serverless software vending solution, Kubernetes on the edge and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #89
Nov 8, 2021 | 10 minute read
November 8th, 2021 - Instalment #89 Newsletter #89. This week we have another selection of great new projects for you to take a look at. Kicking things off with the latest open source project from Airbnb, ottr, a Public Key Infrastructure framework that handles end-to-end certificate rotations, the other projects include cloudkey, clock-bound, aws-recon, cdk-dia and more. Make sure you check these out. As always, we have a wide selection of new blog posts from the AWS and Community bloggers covering topics from Alphafold, BayerCLAW, and Babelfish to OpenSearch, AWS CDK, ffmpeg, Amazon Corretto, Spring Boot, Bottlerocket, Snyk, MariaDB and GitHub actions.
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AWS open source news and updates #88
Nov 1, 2021 | 14 minute read
November 1st, 2021 - Instalment #88 Newsletter #88. Number 88 symbolises fortune and good luck in Chinese culture (I hope that is correct, so please let me know if that is not) and I hope you will feel you are all the luckier for chancing upon this weeks selection of open source projects and posts. This week, the big news was the publishing of the Babelfish repository. Check out the launch post as well as additional content and links to this interesting open source project.
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AWS open source news and updates #87
Oct 25, 2021 | 11 minute read
October 25th, 2021 - Instalment #87 Newsletter #87. As we approach Halloween (or Dia de los Muertos/All Saints as I remember it), rest assured there is nothing scary in this weeks round up of all things open source on AWS. This weeks projects include a project that helps you implement a GitOps workflow that includes Crossplane and Argo CD, and a static analysis tool for CloudFormation templates. We have some great blog posts this week, featured topics include Apache Kafka, StackGres, Spinnaker, OpenShift, Envoy, Porting Assistant for .
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AWS open source news and updates #86
Oct 18, 2021 | 12 minute read
October 18th, 2021 - Instalment #86 updated Jan 18th, to remove dead links Newsletter #86. This week we have a very broad variety of topics. Starting off with some fresh open source projects such as cfn-diagram, aws-jwt-verify, damo, aws-dotnet-deploy, automated-account-configuration, BayerCLAW and more. For mains, we have new AWS and community authored posts on MySQL, OpenSearch, .NET, miniwdl, OpenMRS, Apache Hudi, Apache Spark, ROS, cdk8s, Jax, Deep Graph Library and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #85
Oct 11, 2021 | 12 minute read
October 11th, 2021 - Instalment #85 Newsletter #85. This week we have an interesting gaming flavour to this newsletter, with a couple of projects that are influenced or are directly related to gaming. We also have other new open source projects including one that shows you how you can run an OpenVSCode Server for AWS Graviton2. This weeks blog post and tutorials cover Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Ranger, Apache Flink, OpenSearch, Apache Lucene, PostgreSQL, AWS CDK, and Kubernetes.
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AWS open source news and updates 84
Oct 4, 2021 | 9 minute read
October 4th, 2021 - Instalment #84 updated Jan 18th, to remove dead links Newsletter #84. Welcome to issue #84 of this newsletter, and we have more great new open source projects for you this week. We have a couple of great security/compliance/governance tools that will help you with security in cloudgraphdev and (the amazingly named) wonk, placebo, a tool to help you mock tests, a new cli from AWS to help you simplify those of you working with genomics workloads, and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #83
Sep 27, 2021 | 12 minute read
September 27th, 2021 - Instalment #83 Newsletter #83. Welcome to issue #83 of this newsletter, and more great new open source projects to check out. For infrastructure as code practitioners we have several projects for both CDK and Terrafrom, a CI/CD project to help you scale GitHub Actions runners, a simple hosting project with some nice features you can use as a baseline for your own project, a reference architecture for data analytics on AWS with some comprehensive CDK stacks you can inspect and borrow for your own, a project to help you visualise some of your key cloud metrics and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #82
Sep 20, 2021 | 14 minute read
September 20th, 2021 - Instalment #82 Newsletter #82. Welcome to issue #82 of this newsletter, bringing you the latests updates on open source on AWS. This weeks featured new projects include cdk-nag (helping CDK developers to shift left and check their stacks against best practices), cfn-alarms (a nice tool to automate the creation of your CloudWatch alarms), aws-lambda-adapter (a project to help accelerate your web applications to serverless), as well as some new open source solutions including aws-security-hub-automated-response-and-remediation and eks-preventative-controls.
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AWS open source news and updates #81
Sep 13, 2021 | 16 minute read
September 13th, 2021 - Instalment #81 Updated 18th Jan, remove dead links Newsletter #81. Welcome new and existing readers of this newsletter to another edition with plenty to excite you. This weeks brand new open source projects include some great new AWS CDK constructs to help you with things such as Apache Airflow, a tool to help you with your IAM policies, a really nice tool to explore and interact with AWS SQS and something for Minecraft fans.
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AWS open source news and updates #80
Sep 6, 2021 | 17 minute read
September 6th, 2021 - Instalment #80 Newsletter #80. So what delights does #80 of this newsletter offer this week? We have plenty of new open source projects, such as aws-o11y-recipes (observability recipes), dassana-io (contextual alerts), sgCheckup (security), aws-lambda-scheduler (developer tool to simplify scheduling of AWS Lambda functions), aacli (AWS cli authentication/SSO) as well as Terraform modules and AWS open source solutions covering Hugging Face, reporting on your AWS accounts and more.
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AWS open source news and updates #79
Aug 27, 2021 | 24 minute read
August 27th, 2021 - Instalment #79 Newsletter #79. The combination of having been away on PTO for the past few weeks, and this coming Monday being a national holiday in the UK, I thought I would post the newsletter today. Covering nearly three weeks, a lot has happened so there is a lot to cover. We have 17 new open source projects and solutions, including EventBridge Canon, an essential project if you are working with event driven architectures on AWS, kics a security scanning tool for your IaC, open source solutions such as aws-security-analytics-bootstrap and amazon-msk-with-apache-kafka-streams-api, and other new projects like aws-python-utilities, snap-xcompile, riFT, rds_iamauth_proxy, aws-simple-websocket, ecs-external-instance-network-sentry and more.