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AWS open source newsletter #207
Feb 28, 2025 | 25 minute read
Edition #207 - February 2025 Welcome to issue #207 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, we have more great new projects to check out, which include real time analysis of your client calls to AWS APIs, a dashboard for all your AWS Health Events, an EBS analysis tool, a SIEM tool that allows you to query your AWS events, a really cool AI Coding Assistant powered by Amazon Bedrock, a really great demo of how to implement an MCP server, running WhispherX on AWS Lambda, and more!
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- aws open source
- kro
- AWS CDK
- OpenTelemetry
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- dstack
- GraphRAG
- FFMpeg
- ArgoCD
- Terragrunt
- OpenTofu
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- Apache Kafka
- Amazon Linux
- Apache Flink
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Apache Spark
- MySQL
- Qonto
- Prometheus
- Amazon EMR
- Apache Iceberg
- OpenSearch
- Valkey
- AWS Amplify
- Lustre
- InfluxDB
- Cedar
- Aider
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AWS open source newsletter #206
Jan 27, 2025 | 23 minute read
Edition #206 Happy New Year and welcome to issue #206 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As this is the first edition post re:Invent, you will find a lot of content showcasing all the new open source stuff that AWS has released, so there is plenty of really cool stuff to get stuck into - whether you are cloud native and want to know more about Amazon EKS Auto Mode, or more a data guru that is super excited about Apache Iceberg support in Amazon S3 Tables.
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- aws open source
- AWS CDK
- Cedar
- Swift
- Apache Iceberg
- Valkey
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Karpenter
- OpenShift
- ROSA
- Bottlerocket
- TensorFlow
- Triton
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- InfluxDB
- Apache Kafka
- Amazon EMR
- Apache Spark
- dbt
- OpenZFS
- AWS Amplify
- Grafana
- OpenSearch
- Apache ActiveMQ
- Powertools for AWS Lambda
- Backstage
- Apache Flink
- Prometheus
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AWS open source newsletter #204
Oct 22, 2024 | 25 minute read
Edition #204 Welcome to issue #204 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. Apologies for the long wait since the last edition, I will have to do better. Thanks for the lovely messages and feedback I have received over the past few weeks, this edition is for you! As always, we have more great new projects to check out, which include projects that surface up your AWS costs in Home Assistant, a tool that you can use to ask questions about your code base that uses generative AI, a git large file storage (LFS) extension that lets you use Amazon S3, and a handy network cost calculator.
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- aws open source
- Home Assistant
- Godot
- Valkey
- Keycloak
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- PostgreSQL
- deequ
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
- OTEL
- Grafana
- Spring Boot
- Amazon Corretto
- ROSA
- OpenShift
- Kubecost
- Amazon Linux 2023
- Karpenter
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Apache Flink
- Apache Kafka
- OpenZFS
- InfluxDB
- AWS Parallel Cluster
- Lustre
- Prometheus
- Finch
- Ubuntu
- Cedar
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AWS open source newsletter #203
Aug 27, 2024 | 28 minute read
Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, more great new projects are featured in this edition, #203. Projects to check out include: how you can proxy OpenAI requests through Amazon Bedrock, security tools that help you stay one step ahead of bad actors, a way of implementing CDK Pipelines in a less opinionated way, a tool that helps you validate your AWS IAM policies, a toolkit to help get you started with good practices when creating CloudFormation templates, some demo code that demonstrate how you can implement zero downtime updates to your applications, as well as some really cool demos and use cases of generative AI in action (too many to mention, so check them all out!
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- aws open source
- Langfuse
- Steampipe
- Ray
- Apache Spark
- AWS Amplify
- Flutter
- Valkey
- O3DE
- AWS CDK
- LangChain
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Argo Workflows
- OpenTofu
- Bottlerocket
- Karpenter
- OpenTelemetry
- Apache Flink
- Apache Pinot
- Apache Kafka
- openCypher
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Deequ
- OCSF
- GraphStorm
- OpenShift
- Amazon EMR
- ActiveMQ
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Cedar
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AWS open source newsletter #202
Jul 22, 2024 | 20 minute read
Edition #202 Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, issue #202. In this edition, I share more new projects (thank you for those of you that have sent them through) which include a project to help you monitor your data pipelines, the open sourced AWS Secrets Manager agent, a really cool new framework for managing multi generative AI agents, a couple of interesting projects to help manage your AWS accounts, a repo that provides CloudFormation snippets, and a few demo applications including one I put together that shows how you can use the Amazon Bedrock Converse API to summarise Hacker News comments.
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- aws open source
- PostgreSQL
- OpenSearch
- Cedar
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- OpenShift
- ROSA
- PHP
- Flyway
- LiteLLM
- GraphRAG
- Valkey
- Finch
- Dask
- Cilium
- Apache Kafka
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- AWS CDK
- Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- InfluxDB
- Apache Solr
- Apache Flink
- MLflow
- Notation
- Amazon Linux 2023
- RabbitMQ
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AWS open source newsletter #201
Jul 10, 2024 | 28 minute read
Edition #201 Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, issue #201, your trusted source for the very best open source on AWS content. This weeks new projects for you to practice your four freedoms include generative AI infused projects to help you generate your docs, streamline the setting up of your AWS resources, a new experimental framework for building document based workflows, and a cool demo that showcases how you can use generative AI to help translate American Sign Language.
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- aws open source
- PHP
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Node.js
- LLRT
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- eksctl
- Valkey
- LangChain
- Project Lakechain
- AWS Amplify
- Itsio
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Cassandra
- PyTorch
- Apache httpd
- Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
- Apache Flink
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- OpenSearch
- OpenZFS
- Amazon Linux
- FreeRTOS
- RabbitMQ
- AWS ParallelCluster
- Open Container Initiative
- Smithy
- Cedar
- sbt
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AWS open source newsletter #196
Apr 29, 2024 | 22 minute read
Edition #196 Welcome to issue #196 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, more great new projects are featured in this edition of the newsletter, including a link to the Valkey repo, a nice GUI based project to help you build orchestration workflows that uses Apache Airflow under the covers, a tool to help you find signals through the noise of your security logs, a project to help you run serverless tasks in a cron like fashion, a command line runner for Amazon CodeCatalyst, a tool to help you simplify the deployment of Cruise Control on Amazon MSK, a nice Mac client for experimenting with Amazon Bedrock, and some really cool demo apps, the pick of which (for me) is a nice way of surfacing up your Amazon Bedrock models in a way that existing applications that expect an API key can use.
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- aws open source
- Valkey
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- OpenSearch
- LangChain
- PostgreSQL
- WordPress
- RAGmap
- RAGxplorer
- Cedar
- AWS CDK
- Lambda Web Adapter
- Postfix
- Spring Boot
- Amazon Corretto
- Amazon EKS
- Kubernetes
- Karpenter
- KEDA
- Prometheus
- OPA
- Amazon EMR
- PySpark
- MySQL
- Open JD
- AWS Amplify
- GraphQL
- AWS PDK
- Apache Livy
- Nodestream
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AWS open source newsletter #195
Apr 15, 2024 | 21 minute read
Edition #195 Welcome to issue #195 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. This week I am heading out to Everything Open, and looking forward to meeting the community in Gladstone. I will be talking about Cedar, and showing why it is important and how it works (demo is working lovely now). I am now on the third week of my open source roadshow, which is why I have had to change the publishing of this newsletter to every other week - at least until I get back home.
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AWS open source newsletter #194
Apr 3, 2024 | 21 minute read
Edition #194 Welcome to issue #194 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. Due to travelling and speaking commitments, regular readers will have noticed that I slipped up and missed a week. Normal service has been resumed, and as always, this week we start with a round up of some freshly baked new projects for you to practice your four freedoms.
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AWS open source newsletter #192
Mar 11, 2024 | 16 minute read
Edition #192 Welcome to issue #192 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, this week we start with a round up of some freshly baked new projects for you to practice your four freedoms. A wide variety this week, and we have projects that help you create architecture diagrams from your YAML, visualise and create dashboards for compliance and reporting purposes, a new multi-cloud threat detection tool, a Go implementation of Cedar, an example of load testing your large language models, and more!
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AWS open source newsletter #188
Feb 12, 2024 | 15 minute read
Edition #188 Welcome to issue #188 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, this week we start with a round up of some freshly baked new projects for you to practice your four freedoms. This week we have freshly cut repos that help you migrate your DNS configurations, improve your prompts when working with large language models, a new lightweight Javascript runtime, some reference code that shows you how you can deploy modern Java applications a number of different ways, and sample repos that show you how you can do remote debugging in Amazon EMR, as well as the usual cool demos that showcase some of the ways you can use generative AI.
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AWS open source newsletter #187
Feb 4, 2024 | 15 minute read
Edition #187 Welcome to issue #187 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, this week we start with a round up of some freshly baked new projects for you to practice your four freedoms. This week we have new projects that help you optimise working with EBS volumes on EC2, a tool to help you document your architectures, a large language model benchmarking tool, a tool to help you optimise your S3 storage files, a data validation framework, and a really nice Java workshop.
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AWS open source newsletter #184
Jan 15, 2024 | 17 minute read
Edition #184 Welcome to issue #184 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. As always, this week we start with a round up of some freshly baked new projects for you to practice your four freedoms. This week we have a rust based cli tools to help you accelerate your S3 searches, we take a look at a new framework to help simplify bootstrapping your projects, a tool to help you report on your AWS resource tags, a voice translator for Chime, a really nice sample project to help you get hands on with Cedar, a number of generative AI demos and sample projects that are a must, and many more projects.
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AWS open source newsletter #183
Jan 8, 2024 | 26 minute read
January 8th, 2024 - Instalment #183 Happy new year and welcome to the first edition of the AWS open source newsletter of 2024, number #183. The big news for 2024 is the move from dev.to to community.aws as the “home” for the AWS open source newsletter, although it will still be posted on dev.to as well. Let me know what you think, community.aws has some top notch content that many readers might not be aware of.
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- aws open source
- Cedar
- Projen
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Mage
- OpenSearch
- AWS CDK
- eBPF
- Istio
- Kubecost
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- ActiveMQ
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Apache Spark
- Ray
- AWS Amplify
- Spring Boot
- Amazon EMR
- AWS Neuron
- Apache Cassandra
- OpenTelemetry
- Amazon Linux
- AWS ParallelCluster
- RabbitMQ
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AWS open source newsletter #172
Sep 4, 2023 | 21 minute read
September 4th, 2023 - Instalment #172 Welcome to #172 of the AWS open source newsletter, your reliable source for all open source on AWS goodness. What do we have for you this week? Well, more new projects to check out, and plenty of fresh content on the open source projects you all love. We have tools to help you export your DynamoDB tables as csv files, a tool that goes beyond tracking cost and actually shuts down resources to help you manage your AWS budget, a cool dashboard to help you stay on top of your EC2 configurations, a couple of useful utilities to simplify working with files on Amazon S3, and then a sample Cedar project that helps you implement a Lambda authoriser.
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AWS open source newsletter #171
Aug 29, 2023 | 18 minute read
August 29th, 2023 - Instalment #171 Welcome to #171 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter created for developers passionate about open source. Thanks to the wonderful August bank holiday here in the UK, we are publishing a day later than usual. If you have not read this newsletter before, we feature new projects, content from across the open source and AWS community, and share events and videos that you should check out.
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AWS open source newsletter #170
Aug 21, 2023 | 21 minute read
August 21st, 2023 - Instalment #170 Welcome to edition #170 of the AWS open source newsletter, an oasis of open source goodness that features the latest new projects, essential reading, and must view videos to quench the thirst of every open source developer. This weeks edition we have new projects that help you get on top of your IAM actions, a handy tool for knowing what your current AWS account service limits are from the command line, a tool to help you do database migrations, and some interesting and very detailed reference solutions for gaming, live streaming, and managing/exporting of your Amazon Cognito profiles.
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- aws open source
- AWS-LC
- Threat Composer
- AWS CDK
- AWS SAM
- AWS SDK for Java
- GitLab
- GraphQL
- AWS AppSync
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT)
- PostgreSQL
- Apache Airflow
- SBOM
- Syft
- Apache Hudi
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Spark
- collectd
- Grafana
- O3DE
- ROS
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- OpenZFS
- MWAA
- Cedar
- Powertools for Lambda
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AWS open source newsletter #169
Aug 14, 2023 | 26 minute read
August 14th, 2023 - Instalment #169 Welcome to #169 of the AWS open source newsletter, featuring the latest and greatest open source news, projects, videos, and community content that you need to know about. Featured in this weeks edition we have more great projects, including a new ODBC driver for Amazon Timestream database, a nice tool to simplify your ssh tunnelling, an essential VSCode extension for working with Cedar policies, a couple of projects that help you shift left and validate / monitor your policies, a solution to help you monitor your Apache Kafka environments, as well as some great sample applications.
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- aws open source
- OpenSearch
- AWS CDK
- Juypter AI
- dbt
- Apache Airflow
- Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Cedar
- cfnguard
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Apache Kafka
- Amazon Timestream
- Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework
- OCSF
- AWS Lambda Web Adapter
- Smithy
- Apache Spark
- Linux
- Amazon Linux
- AWS ParallelCluster
- PostgreSQL
- Spring Boot
- Amazon EKS
- Kubernetes
- Mountpoint for Amazon S3
- MySQL
- Lustre
- OpenZFS
- Redis
- Amazon EMR
- Karpenter
- Seekable OCI
- SOCI
- Firecracker
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AWS open source newsletter #167
Jul 31, 2023 | 22 minute read
July 31st, 2023 - Instalment #167 Welcome to #167 of the AWS open source newsletter, and another edition packed with new open source projects for you to explore. Whether you are new to this newsletter, or returning (we thank you!) there is something for you. This week we have projects that will help use Terraform to deploy your monolith applications, a tool to accelerate your GraphQL building when working with Amazon DynamoDB, a project that will help you introduce chaos without changes to your code, and a couple of really nice demos of using generative AI that allows you to use natural language to query your data.
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- aws open source
- Terraform
- Rust
- LangChain
- Streamlit
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- OpenSearch
- AWS SAM
- AWS CDK
- Powertools for AWS Lambda
- Open Application Model
- OAM
- Traefik
- Keycloak
- FastAPI
- PyTorch
- MySQL
- IAM Roles Anywhere
- Apache Iceberg
- MQTT
- Amazon EMR
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Apache Hudi
- Go
- Cedar
- RabbitMQ
- Pacu
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AWS open source newsletter #166
Jul 24, 2023 | 22 minute read
July 24th, 2023 - Instalment #166 Welcome to #166 of the AWS open source newsletter. As always, we search high and low for the best and latest open source content, and I think you will love what we have lined up this week. This weeks new projects include a library to help you managed and validate your environment variables when working with AWS Lambda, a new Rust based tool for interacting with your S3 buckets, an essential tool to help CDK developers remove a lot of the setup work, and a tool that helps you run Yocto embedded Linux build jobs in AWS.
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AWS open source newsletter #165
Jul 17, 2023 | 17 minute read
July 17th, 2023 - Instalment #165 Welcome to #165 of the AWS open source newsletter, the only* newsletter that brings you the best and latest open source content. We have some great new projects this week, including a tool for IoT developers to help you validate your SQL statements, a command line interface tool for Amazon Verified Permissions, an Amazon DynamoDB estimation tool, and more. Also featured this week is content on Apache Iceberg, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Power Tools for AWS Lambda, Spring Boot, Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, Karpenter, Apollo GraphQL, JupyterHub, dbt, Apache Airflow, Cedar, and Apache Flink.
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AWS open source newsletter #164
Jul 10, 2023 | 17 minute read
July 10th, 2023 - Instalment #164 Welcome to #164 of the AWS open source newsletter. As always, we search high and low for the best and latest open source content, and I think you will love what we have lined up this week. New projects this week will help you implement single table designs easily on Amazon DynamoDB, an experimental project to help you get to grips with Cedar, a comprehensive clickstream analytics project for your applications, web sites, and mobile applications, and some cool projects to help you with edge and hybrid use cases.
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- aws open source
- Apache Flink
- Apache Airflow
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Lambda Powertools
- Spring Boot
- Linux
- Apache Parquet
- OpenZFS
- OpenSearch
- Mountpoint for Amazon S3
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Amplify
- Next.js
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
- Grafana
- Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
- AWS ParallelCluster
- Consul
- Apache Iceberg
- Cedar
- Steampipe
- VS Code Server
- nomad
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AWS open source newsletter #162
Jun 26, 2023 | 18 minute read
June 26th, 2023 - Instalment #162 Welcome to #162 of the AWS open source newsletter. As always, we search high and low for the best and latest open source content, and I think you will love what we have lined up this week. If you are looking for new projects to try out, then this weeks projects include a very handy tool for Amazon EKS admins, a new experimental project that looks to use ChatGPT to manage your AWS resources, a workshop on Generative AI on AWS, a new tool that helps simplify how you can connect to RDS resources, a PHP library to help you verify your JWT tokens, and a great example application of how you can use Cedar and Amazon Verified Permissions.
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AWS open source newsletter #161
Jun 19, 2023 | 19 minute read
June 19th, 2023 - Instalment #161 Welcome to #161 of the AWS open source newsletter, and another week for fresh, new open source projects and code for you to practice your four freedoms. This weeks projects include tools that will help you create temporary elevated credentials, a new Java library that provides methods for encrypting and decrypting cryptographic materials, an AWS DynamoDB wrapper for Node/TypeScript developers, and a solution to help you find and visualise data assets.
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- aws open source
- Falcon
- AWS CDK
- Keycloak
- Cedar
- FreeRTOS
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Apache Spark
- Amazon EMR
- Apache Hudi
- Apache Iceberg
- and Delta Lake
- Apache Flink
- OpenChatkit
- Kubernetes
- Pinniped
- Kubecost
- Karpenter
- ONNX
- Apache Kafka
- Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
- AWS Amplify
- Next.js
- OpenSearch
- Flux
- ArgoCD
- KVM
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AWS open source newsletter #160
Jun 12, 2023 | 17 minute read
June 12th, 2023 - Instalment #160 Welcome to #160 of the AWS open source newsletter, where we try and share all the important open source news, projects, events, and content that open source builders want. This week we have new projects that include tools to help you build data workflows, Terraform modules to help you incorporate temporary elevated access controls, integrating Tailscale to change your traffic flows, a neat AWS Lambda debugging tool, Go bindings for Cedar, and more.
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AWS open source newsletter #159
Jun 5, 2023 | 16 minute read
June 5th, 2023 - Instalment #159 Welcome to #159 of the AWS open source newsletter, where we try and share all the important open source news, projects, events, and content that open source builders want. This week we have new projects that include tools to help you generate test data, an accelerator for stable diffusion, tools to help you with managing application credentials and variables, a new connector for Apache Kafka, and more!
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AWS open source newsletter #157
May 22, 2023 | 19 minute read
May 22nd, 2023 - Instalment #157 Welcome Hello and welcome to the AWS open source newsletter, #157. Apologies for the lack of newsletter last week, but hopefully this week will make up for that as we have a bumper selection of great open source content for you. This weeks new projects include repos that help you get OpenEMR up and running (“host-openemr-on-aws-fargate”), two new security related open source projects that you definitely need to check out, (“cedar” and “snapchange”), integration of clickstream analytics using Swift (“clickstream-swift”), deployment of Backstage to serve up access to your AWS resources, (“app-development-for-backstage-io-on-aws”), a tool to help you clean up ecs tasks definitions (“aws-ecs-task-definition-cleanup”) and many more.
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AWS open source newsletter #141
Jan 15, 2023 | 13 minute read
January 16th, 2023 - Instalment #141 Welcome Welcome to the AWS open source newsletter of 2023, edition #141. This week we have more new projects for you to practice your four freedoms, including “distributed-compute-on-aws-with-cross-regional-dask”, a solution to simplify distributed compute using Dask, “amazon-emr-serverless-image-cli” a tool to verify your Amazon EMR custom container images, “serverless-run-watch” a tool to help accelerate your local development if you are using the Serverless Framework, “aws-sso-auto-expand-accounts” a quick browser extension for those using AWS SSO, “basti” a cool Bastion Host alternative, “klotho” generate cloud native code from your code, “amazon-route53-hosted-zone-sync” a nice solution for hybrid DNS use cases, and many more.