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awless is a fast, powerful and easy-to-use command line interface (CLI) to manage Amazon Web Services.

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Why awless

awless will help you achieve your goals without leaving your terminal:

• run frequent actions by using simple commands
• get nice and readable output (for humans) that machine know how to parse too
• explore and query your infrastructure and cloud resources, even offline
• ensure smart defaults & security best practices
• write and run powerful templates (see awless templates (wiki))
• connect to your instances easily

Install

Choose one of the following options:

1. On macOS, use homebrew: brew tap wallix/awless; brew install awless
2. With curl (macOS/Linux), run: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wallix/awless/master/getawless.sh | bash
3. Download the latest awless binaries (Windows/Linux/macOS) from Github
4. If you have Golang already installed, install from the source with: go get -u github.com/wallix/awless

Main Features

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• Clear and easy listing of multi-region cloud resources (subnets, instances, users, buckets, records, etc.) on AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, AutoScaling, SNS, SQS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation and Lambda: awless list
• Output formats either human (Markdown-compatible tables, trees) or machine readable (csv, tsv, json, ...): --format
• Listing can be filtered via resource properties or resources tags: --filter property=val, --tag Key=Value
• Explore a resource given only an id, name or arn (properties, relations, dependencies, ...): awless show
• Creation, update and deletion (CRUD) of cloud resources and complex infrastructure with smart defaults and sound autocomplete through powerful awless templates: awless run my-awless-templates/create_my_infra.txt
• Powerful CRUD CLI one-liner (integrated in the awless templating engine) with: awless create instance ..., awless create vpc ..., awless attach policy ...
• Leveraging AWS userdata to provision instance on creation from remote (i.e http) or local scripts: awless create instance userdata=http://...
• Easy reporting of all the CLI template executions: awless log
• Revert of executed templates and resources creation: awless revert
• Clean and simple ssh to instances: awless ssh
• Resolve public images dynamically (i.e. independant of the region specific AMI id): awless search images canonical:ubuntu:xenial --id-only
• Aliasing of resources through their natural name so you don't have to always use cryptic ids that are impossible to remember
• Inspectors are small CLI utilities to run analysis on your cloud resources graphs: awless inspect
• Manual sync mode to fetch & store resources locally. Then query & inspect your cloud offline: awless sync
• CLI autocompletion for Unix/Linux's bash and zsh awless completion

Getting started

Take the tour at Getting Started (wiki).

Or read the introductory blog post about awless.

About

awless is an open source project created by Henri Binsztok, Quentin Bourgerie, Simon Caplette and François-Xavier Aguessy at Wallix. awless is released under the Apache License and sponsored by Wallix.

Disclaimer: Awless allows for easy resource creation with your cloud provider;
we will not be responsible for any cloud costs incurred (even if you create a 
million instances using awless templates).

Contributors are welcome! Please head to Contributing (wiki) to learn more.