Announcing a new open source project for scenario-focused AWS CLI scripts

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a new collection of developer-focused resources for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). These resources demonstrate working end-to-end shell scripts for working with AWS services and best practices that simplify the process of authoring shell scripts that handle errors, track created resources, and perform cleanup operations.

The new AWS Developer Tutorials project on GitHub provides a library of tested, scenario-focused AWS CLI scripts covering over 60 AWS services. These tutorials provide quicker ways to get started using an AWS service API with the AWS CLI. Leveraging generative AI and existing documentation, developers can now more easily create working scripts for their own resources, saving time and reducing errors when managing AWS resources through the AWS CLI. Each script includes a tutorial that explains how the script works with the AWS service API to create, interact with, and clean up resources.

The project also includes instructions that you can use to generate and contribute new scripts. You can use existing content and examples with generative AI tools such as the Amazon Q Developer CLI to generate a working script through an iterative test-and-improve process. Depending on how well-documented the use case is, this process can take as little as 15 minutes. For scenarios that don’t have existing examples of API calls with input and output, it can take more iterations to get a working script. Sometimes you need to provide additional information or examples from your own testing to fill in a gap. This process can actually be quite fun!

To get started, see AWS Developer Tutorials. For more information on the project, see our post on Builder Center.