We are happy to announce today that awless.io is getting out of alpha and is now considered beta with our first major release.

As the cloud has grown in popularity, AWS has become the undisputed market leader, powering many of the internet giants and setting the pace for the wide range of cloud services. The challenge for DevOps is to keep up with that pace so they can understand the growing number of services and their associated features.

DevOps often wonder about the best ways to manage quick-growing AWS infrastructures. They question whether they should use the graphical user interface (GUI, a.k.a. the AWS console) or the command line interface (CLI, starting with AWS’s own aws-cli)? Or maybe a mix of both?

There is another option to proposes to simplify the work of DevOps : awless.io, a new open source CLI for AWS written in Go. The awless.io project got praise from AWS superstar Jeff Barr and attracted more than 2.5k stars on GitHub in just a few months.

awless.io is an alternative CLI for AWS that values simplicity over exhaustivity. The main principles behind awless.io include:

Run frequent actions by using simple commands;

Use smart defaults to minimize cloud knowledge;

Get nice and readable output (for humans) that machine know how to parse too;

Use a local copy of the infrastructure model, stored as a RDF graph, which enables users to study the graph and perform computations locally, even offline;

Connect to your instances easily.

Just the Beginning

awless.io 0.1.0 released today, following more than 20 alpha releases since the project publicly launched in January 2017.

The project is fully open source and released under the Apache license. As of now, awless.io supports the following AWS services: IAM, EC2 (including ELBv2), S3, Route53, RDS, SQS, SNS, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, CloudFormation and Lambda. Even more services will be added in the near future.

The project is a work-in-progress. We expect awless.io to improve in many ways, including supporting more AWS services and features for each service. You’re welcome to file or upvote existing GitHub issues if your favorite service is (still) missing.

We welcome you to contribute and help us spread the word! And to stay up-to-date on the latest news about awless.io, follow us on Twitter at @awlessCLI.

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