# cloudavail/aws-missing-tools

tools for managing AWS resources including EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation and Route53.

Repository: https://github.com/cloudavail/aws-missing-tools
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/aws-missing-tools
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-05-01T00:16:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5190, "days_push": 2682, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1333, forks 397 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.800925+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cli, developer-tools, backup, monitoring, alerting, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cloud
- tags: aws, ec2, ebs, rds, iam, cloudformation, route53, auto-scaling, shell-scripts, backup-snapshots, high-availability, devops, automation, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- cloudavail/aws-missing-tools (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.800925+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 2026-08-30T04:44:42.067629+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cloudavail/aws-missing-tools (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.800925+00:00, sha 58e164b59a7c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.