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It's probably my fault if you haven't heard of Bash-My-AWS.

Bash-My-AWS is a simple but extremely powerful set of CLI commands for managing resources on Amazon Web Services. They harness the power of Amazon's AWSCLI, while abstracting away the verbosity. The project implements some innovative patterns but (arguably) remains simple, beautiful, readable and easily extensible.

The project started in 2014 and while many hundreds of hours have gone into it, far less has gone into promotion.

I'm speaking about it at LinuxConf and have created a documentation site at https://bash-my-aws.org

https://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/144/

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Here's the video from my talk on Bash-my-AWS at LinuxConf 2020 in the Gold Coast Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbH_cg7Ev1Q

for anyone on this thread that is interested. I run https://getcommandeer.com which is a tool to manage your AWS and IAC infrastructure from a desktop GUI. I love this bash-my-aws, as we are about to release Bash, Docker Compose, and Terraform Runners. We already have Serverless and Ansible runners. They enable you to run your command line system from a GUI, so that you can instantly switch between AWS accounts/regions and even LocalStack. Because it is a desktop, under the hood we are really running cli tools mixed in with some AWS JS SDK.

Why does your main website (linked in your comment) require JS to run? I've not seen anything that warrants that requirement.

I wish people would stop making websites that's require JS.

Spoiler alert: if you don’t want to run JavaScript in your browser, you’re not going to enjoy this application.

yea, it works terrible without a monitor as well. The site does not work headless. what was I thinking? It's a desktop application. The site is where you download the app.

To be a little more constructive with my answer. The website needs javascript for our chat service, our newsletter service, our ability for users to purchase licenses for the app, the night/dark mode switch. The codebase also shares components with our desktop app as they are both Vue, but with the desktop app utilizing electron. We will look to make the site be html only at some point, but it is not a focus of our dev team. If you download the app, you will see that it is a first rate experience for managing many AWS services. The app itself probably has about 1,000 man hours or more put into it. Would love to hear insight into how we can make it even more powerful for the community.

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