# wallix/awless

A Mighty CLI for AWS

Repository: https://github.com/wallix/awless
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awless
Homepage: http://awless.io/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: aws, cli, cloud, aws-cli, cloud-management, awless, golang, devops, devops-tools
Last push: 2022-08-02T00:04:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3743, "days_push": 1493, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4956, forks 258 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:03.820554+00:00)

## What it is
awless is a powerful CLI for managing Amazon Web Services with a small, hierarchical command surface. It offers a templating language for creating and reverting infrastructure, a local graph of cloud resources for offline exploration, and smart SSH connectivity to instances.

## Use cases
- manage aws resources from the terminal
- create and revert aws infrastructure with templates
- explore my aws cloud resources and their relationships offline
- ssh into ec2 instances easily
- log and undo past cloud modifications
- get human or machine friendly output for aws api calls

## When to avoid
- you need support for cloud providers other than AWS
- you require a tool under active development with recent updates
- you need full coverage of every AWS API operation
- you rely on Terraform-style declarative state management

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, cloud, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools, ssh
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools
- platform: cli, windows, go
- tags: aws, cloud-management, aws-cli-alternative, infrastructure-templating, cloud-graph, revertible-operations, devops, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- wallix/awless (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:03.820554+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:50.130181+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wallix/awless (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:03.820554+00:00, sha a2fbe212e3e3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.