aws
A Chef cookbook providing resources to manage Amazon Web Services infrastructure and services via Infrastructure as Code.
What is aws?
The aws cookbook is a Chef community cookbook that provides a set of custom resources for managing Amazon Web Services infrastructure. It allows developers and system administrators to define AWS resources—like EC2 instances, S3 buckets, IAM policies, and CloudFormation stacks—directly within their Chef recipes, enabling Infrastructure as Code practices for AWS environments.
DevOps engineers, system administrators, and infrastructure teams who use Chef for configuration management and want to integrate AWS resource provisioning into their Chef-managed nodes and workflows.
It offers a native Chef way to manage AWS, leveraging familiar resource syntax and idempotent operations, while supporting advanced AWS features like STS role assumption, MFA, and fine-grained IAM permissions. As part of the Sous Chefs community, it is actively maintained and integrates with the broader Chef ecosystem.
Overview
Development repository for the aws cookbook
Use Cases
Best For
- Managing AWS IAM users, groups, and policies from Chef recipes
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