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24 alternatives to Awless, a Powerful CLI for AWS in Go

A Mighty CLI for AWS. Contribute to wallix/awless development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Awless, a Powerful CLI for AWS in Go launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Gowebly▲130

   A next-generation CLI tool to build web apps easier

   2024 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda▲385

   🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda. - schickling/chromeless

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Chromeless▲334

   Headless Chrome automation on AWS Lambda

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Lemon 2.0▲229

   Alternative UI for AWS

   2022 · uselemon.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Hyperform▲185

   Host your websites, APIs and apps serverlessly

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6TC
   Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping▲119

   2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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   Refinery▲222

   The power of serverless made easy via a drag-and-drop editor

   2019 · refinery.io · its alternatives →

8. 8IW
   I wrote a book about using Lambda with Go▲103

   Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…

   2021 · its alternatives →

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   RunsOnfree tier, from $300/mo▲142

   10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners, self-hosted on AWS

   2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    AWS Amplify Admin UI▲235

    Firebase from AWS, but much better

    2020 · docs.amplify.aws · its alternatives →

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    “AWS Lambda, the CLI Way”▲10

    AWS Lambda using CLI, an introductory cookbook. Contribute to nsriram/lambda-the-cli-way development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stackery CLI for AWS Serverless▲7

    Local dev & debugging for any AWS Lambda

    2019 · stackery.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Create Go App▲94

    Create a new production-ready project by one CLI command

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14MG
    Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS▲117

    Hey HN! I'm Jacob, one of the founders of Depot (https://depot.dev), a build service for Docker images, and I'm excited to show what we’ve been working on for the past few months: run GitHub Actions jobs in AWS, orchestrated by Depot! Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5Z-k1mGc8, and here’s our blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-github-actions-runners. While GitHub Actions is one of the most prevalent CI providers, Actions is slow, for a few reasons: GitHub uses underpowered CPUs, network throughput for cache and the…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    AWS Amplify▲179

    JavaScript library for app development using cloud services

    2018 · aws.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS▲68

    A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS. Complete with custom domains, deploy previews, TypeScript support, and more. - JakePartusch/serverlessui

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deposure▲185

    Launch your APIs live effortlessly

    2025 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Serverless Framework v1.0▲150

    Build auto-scaling, pay per execution apps on AWS Lambda

    2016 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    Bash-My-AWS – CLI Commands for AWS▲155

    Bash-my-AWS is a simple but powerful set of CLI commands for managing resources on Amazon Web Services.

    2019 · bash-my-aws.org · its alternatives →

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    Movicorn▲105

    Move to AWS with one click

    2022 · movicorn.com · its alternatives →

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    Cynative Security Research Agent▲97

    Hey, we built an open-source CLI in Go purposed to help you answer security questions across your cloud, code and runtime. It connects to your GitHub, GitLab, AWS, GCP, Azure & K8s using the credentials that are already in your shell, while limiting itself to read-only. The core innovation here is the trust boundary - our agent has a built-in code execution sandbox with no host or network access; it is exposed to an internal tool which we call an “action gate” that performs read-only HTTP requests to your own infrastructure. Since the cloud providers constantly expand actions and services,…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    AWS Amplify Gen 2▲52

    Fullstack TypeScript DX for AWS

    2024 · aws.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Cronyo – A simple CLI to manage your cron jobs on AWS▲86

    The missing cron CLI for AWS Cloudwatch and Lambda - cronyo/cronyo

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Collie CLI▲76

    Manage your AWS, Azure & GCP clouds with our open-source CLI

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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