AWS Open Source Blog
Category: Open Source
Why Bad Bugs in DNS (And Other Open Source Code) Just Won’t Go Away
Paul Vixie, VP/ Distinguished Engineer of Security at AWS, explains why bugs discovered in DNS 14 years ago are still causing problems for software today, despite the existence of a patch.
Introducing Open Source AWS CardDemo for Mainframe Modernization
By open sourcing CardDemo, we want to make it easier for our customers, partners and for the mainframe community to learn and experiment with mainframe code and to understand solutions for modernizing mainframe applications.
Amazon Joins the Open Invention Network
Amazon is committing its entire patent portfolio to the body of patents that are free to use with OIN’s defined open source projects. Our membership is also a statement that AWS is committed to protecting and fostering open source.
Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development
Today we are happy to announce a new open source project, Finch. Finch is a new command line client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers.
Optimized Video Encoding with FFmpeg on AWS Graviton Processors
Graviton2 and Graviton3 processors are cost efficient and fast for running video transcoding. With the latest improvements to the open source FFmpeg and codecs, the advantage has only improved.
Accelerate AWS IAM Identity Center (Successor to AWS Single Sign-On) Implementation using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
In conversations with our customers, we often hear that they find it tedious to write AWS CloudFormation templates to create new permission sets, assign permission sets to users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) and grant access for users and groups to multiple AWS accounts in their organization. This […]
Authenticating with Amazon Managed Grafana Using Open Source Keycloak on Amazon EKS
Learn how to deploy and configure the open source Keycloak on Amazon EKS to serve as the SAML authentication provider for Amazon Managed Grafana.
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 […]
Beyond Code: The Artist Who Contributes to Apache TinkerPop
Code isn’t the only way to contribute to open source. The popular Apache TinkerPop project has a recognizable and memorable identity thanks to graphic artist and Apache committer Ketrina Thompson.
Amazon Lookout for Vision Python SDK: Cross-validation and Integration with Other AWS Services
Learn how to use the open source Python SDK for Lookout for Vision in either AWS Glue or AWS Lambda to quickly identify differences in images of objects at scale.