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cloudavail/aws-missing-tools

tools for managing AWS resources including EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation and Route53. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/cloudavail/aws-missing-tools · Shell observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5190
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2682
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1333 stars · 397 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A suite of shell scripts that extends the AWS command line tools with utilities for managing EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, and Route53 resources. It fills operational gaps like EBS snapshot backups, zero-downtime instance replacement, alarm application, and DNS zone migration.

Use cases

  • automate nightly EBS volume snapshots and prune old backups
  • replace all EC2 instances in an auto scaling group with no downtime
  • apply CloudWatch alarms to auto scaling groups or RDS instances
  • update an auto scaling group's launch configuration
  • find which IAM account owns a given access key
  • migrate a Route53 hosted zone to another AWS account
  • inject userdata scripts into CloudFormation templates

When to choose

  • you manage AWS infrastructure with shell scripts and want ready-made CLI utilities
  • you need simple scheduled EBS snapshot backups without extra tooling
  • you perform rolling high-availability releases behind an ELB
  • you are migrating Route53 zones between accounts

When to avoid

  • you want actively maintained software with a license and recent updates
  • you prefer modern infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or the AWS CDK
  • you need features beyond the specific scripts provided
  • your environment requires Windows-native tooling

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

cli developer-tools backup monitoring alerting deployment infrastructure-as-code configuration-management cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code developer-tools cli cloud aws ec2 ebs rds iam cloudformation route53 auto-scaling shell-scripts backup-snapshots high-availability devops automation command-line linux macos

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