AWS Open Source Blog
Flowpipe: A Cloud Scripting Engine for DevOps Workflows
Use HCL to orchestrate tasks that query AWS (and other services you regularly use), then act on the results.
Using Steampipe Relationship Graphs to Navigate Cloud Resources on AWS
Learn how to navigate between resources using the new open source relationship graph capabilities added to Steampipe AWS Insights dashboards.
Securing PyPI for the Future
As the Python Software Foundation’s new security sponsor, AWS is providing funding to the PSF to hire a full-time safety and security engineer dedicated to improving the security posture of the Python Package Index (PyPI).
The AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone: Learn, Play, and Relax at AWS re:Invent 2022
The AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone at The Venetian is a must-visit destination for your re:Invent journey. With demos, experts, food, drinks, swag, games, and mystery surprises, how can you not stop by?
Dashboards as code: A new approach to visualizing AWS APIs
You manage your infrastructure with code, why not manage your dashboards the same way? With Steampipe’s dashboards-as-code approach you write HCL to define dashboard widgets, and you write SQL to fill them with data extracted from APIs. Here are some common questions about your AWS resources: How many resources do I have? How old are […]
Compliance auditing with Steampipe and SQL
This post was contributed by David Boeke, Bob Tordella, Jon Udell, and Nathan Wallace. Steampipe is an open source tool under the AGPLv3 license for querying cloud APIs in a universal way and reasoning about the data in SQL. In our first post we explored the AWS plugin which maps the suite of AWS APIs […]
AWS attendee guide for Open Source at re:Invent 2021
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community. Open source is a huge part of AWS and it is also a huge part of re:Invent. We can’t wait to show you the amazing open source work that is happening and to share the latest from […]
Querying AWS at scale across APIs, Regions, and accounts
This post was contributed by David Boeke, Bob Tordella, Jon Udell, and Nathan Wallace. Steampipe is an open source tool for querying cloud APIs in a universal way and reasoning about the data in SQL. To enable you to select * from cloud, the tool embeds Postgres, and it maps cloud APIs to database tables […]
What is Trapheus?
This article is a guest post from Namita Devadas and Rohit Kumar, Senior Software Engineers at Intuit. Trapheus is an open source Python serverless utility for automated restoration of Relational Database Service (RDS) instances from snapshots into any development, staging, or production environments. It supports snapshot-based restoration for individual RDS instances (for example, Oracle, MySQL, […]








