What is AWS Shell?
The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.
AWS Shell is a tool in the AWS Tools category of a tech stack.
AWS Shell is an open source tool with 7.1K GitHub stars and 766 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to AWS Shell's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses AWS Shell?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use AWS Shell in their tech stacks, including GSI, 5miles, and Fueled.
Developers
28 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AWS Shell.
AWS Shell's Features
- Auto Completion of Commands and Options
- Shorthand Auto Completion
- Server Side Auto Completion
- Fuzzy Searching
- Inline Documentation
- Fish-Style Auto Suggestions
- Command History
- Toolbar Options
- Dot Commands
AWS Shell Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS Shell?
AWS CLI
It is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
