Join this session for a list of quick-hitting pro tips aimed at improving your day-to-day life as a developer building on AWS. Discover tips on working effectively with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and other third-party CLIs. Learn more about creating, editing, debugging, and deploying an AWS Lambda-powered serverless application quickly. Hear more about how to perform powerful filtering and searches on your structured application logs with Amazon CloudWatch. Speaker: Matt Fitzgerald, Tech Evangelist, AWS

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Pro-Tips for Builders on AWS
Matt Fitzgerald
Principal Technical Evangelist
AWS

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As builders we want…

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Teletype Model 33
1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33#/media/File:Teletype-IMG_7287.jpg

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Multics OS
1965
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Multics_logo.gif

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DataPoint 3300
1969
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ctc/3

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Why we love AWS CLI

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Another example: Cleaning up roles
roles=$(aws iam list-roles
--query 'Roles[?starts_with(RoleName, `some-prefix`)].RoleName’
--output text)
for role in $roles; do
policies=$(aws iam list-attached-role-policies
--role-name=$role
--query AttachedPolicies[*][PolicyArn]
--output text)
for policy in $policies; do
aws iam detach-role-policy --policy-arn $policy --role-name $role
done
aws iam delete-role --role-name $role
done

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AWS CLI tooling
AWS CLI
https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
SAWS (“supercharged AWS”)
https://github.com/donnemartin/saws
AWS console recorder
https://github.com/iann0036/AWSConsoleRecorder

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Sketchpad
Ivan Sutherland, 1962
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Smalltalk-76
Xerox PARC, 1976
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface#/media/File:Smalltalk-76.png

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Debugging an AWS
Lambda
The AWS Toolkit in
IntelliJ/PyCharm, 2019

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Serverless
❤️ IDEs
AWS Toolkits for popular IDEs
https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-jetbrains
https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode

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AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• Open Source IDE Toolkit
• Supports .NET Core, Python, and Node.js
• Support for AWS Lambda application development
• Templates for accessibility in getting started
• Integrated step-through debugging
• Simple to deploy
• Visit aws.amazon.com/visualstudiocode or download source
code from GitHub

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Jacquard Apparatus
Joseph Marie Jacquard, 1804

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Assembler
Motorola 680x0 (Amiga), 1989

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