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There exists a third party library called goamz which has been forked all over the place when people have needed to add random features not found in the original version. It works well but hopefully you don't need a set of features that require you to import multiple versions.

Hopefully Amazon's version will be comprehensive and idiomatic.

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True. The "big" players that forked it couldn't be explicatived to work together so the project became seriously fractured. I'm hoping this will move swiftly through experimental to release, and that the generated nature doesn't produce yucky to use implementations.

the problem with goamz, when i forked it, was that merging changes into canonical's bazaar cvs was very hard to do. that was before github and pull requests became de-rigeur, so i'm a bit dated. still, very few of canonical's go projects are bzr-based anymore.

that's the reason you're seeing all those forks: we all added what we needed, couldn't get it in, and gave up.

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