Open Source at AWS
Amazon is part of the open source community: we've been contributing to hundreds of projects for over a decade. We continue to widen our open source collaboration, increasing code contributions and helping to sustain the overall health of open source. We are committed to working with, supporting, and contributing to new and existing open source projects that provide value to our customers and partners. AWS has always aimed to take technology that was traditionally cost-prohibitive and difficult for many organizations to adopt, and make it accessible to a much broader audience. Open source is just one more way that we seek to make technology more accessible to everyone.
Projects & Code
Some Projects We Contribute To
- Apache Lucene for product search
- Apache MXNet
- CBMC, a Bounded Model Checker for C and C++ programs
- Chromium
- CNI (Container Network Interface): We have donated amazon-ecs-cni-plugins and amazon-vpc-cni-k8s to CNI, and regularly maintain releases for them.
- etcd, a distributed key value store fundamental to the Kubernetes cluster management software design: the core maintainers of this project (originated by Red Hat) are from AWS and Google
- FreeRTOS real time operating system, the de-facto standard solution for microcontrollers and small microprocessors
- Kubernetes: We lead and actively maintain subprojects under SIG-AWS and contribute to SIG-Cloud-provider, SIG-Cluster Lifecycle, SIG-Testing, and SIG-Scalability
- Linux
- Redis: we open sourced encryption in transit for Redis
Our Open Source Projects
We have over 1400 projects on GitHub, including:
- Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)
- Alexa SDKs
- Amazon Corretto, a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK with long-term support
- AWS Amplify, a comprehensive library for building sophisticated cloud-powered apps
- aws-cli, the universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
- Chalice, a Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
- All AWS SDKs are open sourced,including Go, Java, JavaScript, Boto (for Python), PHP, Ruby, and more
- s2n, an implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
- The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), an open-source framework for building serverless applications. SAM CLI provides a Lambda-like execution environment to locally build, test, and debug applications defined by AWS SAM templates, and deploy applications to AWS.
See more projects – or search for projects in your area of interest – at aws.github.io.
Major Sponsorships & Memberships
Foundations
- Linux Foundation, Silver Member
- Xen at Linux Foundation, Founding Advisory Member
- Core Infrastructure Initiative, Founding Member
- Open Container Initiative, Founding Member
- ToDo Group, Member
- Alliance for Open Media, Member
- Open MPI, Member
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Platinum Member
- Open Source Initiative, Sponsoring Member
- Open Network User Group (ONUG), Member
- OSRF, Member
We also sponsor:
- Python Software Foundation
- Apache Software Foundation (Targeted Sponsor)
Events
In 2018, we sponsored these open source events:
- FOSDEM
- RailsConf 2018
- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU, Platinum Sponsor
- PyCon, Diamond Sponsor
- FOSS Backstage
- Community Leadership Summit (CLS)
- OSCON, Diamond Sponsor
- RustConf, Gold Sponsor
- Open Source Summit North America, Gold Sponsor
- ApacheCon, Gold Sponsor
- All Things Open, Presenting Sponsor
- ONUG Fall, Thought Leader
- Open Source Summit Europe, Gold
- Sustain Summit
- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Seattle, Diamond Sponsor
Upcoming Events & Talks
Open Source at re:Invent
There are sessions at re:Invent across almost every topic area, about AWS open source projects and services, as well as builder sessions, chalk talks, and more on how to use a wide variety of open source tools in your AWS stack. Read more >>
Kubecon + CloudNative Con North America
Dec 10-13, 2018
Seattle, WA
KubeSec Enterprise Summit by Aqua Security (co-hosted by Aqua Security, Amazon Web Services, and Red Hat), Monday, 12/10, 9:30 AM - 7:30 PM
What's Next for etcd Cluster Management?, Gyuho Lee, AWS, Joe LeGasse, Red Hat – Tuesday, 12/11
1:45 PM - 2:20 PM
Intro: AWS SIG, Nishi Davidson, AWS, Justin Santa Barbara, Google – Wednesday, 12/12, 11:40 AM - 12:15 PM
Using Prow for Testing Outside of K8s, Matt Landis – Wednesday, 12/12, 2:35 PM - 3:10 PM
Resources
AWS Blogs
Open source topics are covered on multiple AWS blogs, including:
Other Open Source News
- Contributing to the AWS Cloud Development Kit – AWS Developer Blog
- Marketing Your Open Source Project (slides) – All Things Open 2018
- Running Containers on AWS using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate (workshop)
- AWS Chalice Workshop
Videos
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