NOTE: hawser is still incomplete and non-functional!

A simple tool to perform tiny sysadmin tasks using Amazon Web Services.

Will support:

• retrieving tags from EC2
• uploading files to S3 buckets
• downloading files from S3 buckets

• Most libraries are huge and try to support all AWS' services.
• Many libraries depend on a third-party installer, e.g. pip or composer.
• I don't want to clutter up production servers (security), or SCM (annoying).
• In order to keep my AWS account secure, I want to know the minimal IAM permissions required for a particular job, and use temporary access credentials where possible.

• s3cmd is a powerful tool for S3 and CloudFront.

  • Doesn't document required IAM permissions (as far as I can tell).
  • Doesn't appear to support temporary access credentials.
  • I still need something to access EC2 tags.

• AWS CLI is Amazon's CLI tool.

  • Requires pip for installation. I don't run a Python stack so don't really need this, and it makes it harder to configure machines with tools like Chef or Puppet.

Make sure you have the following tools:

• A C compiler

• The GNU build system:

  • make
  • autoconf
  • automake
  • autoreconf

• Required libraries (including headers):

  • libcurl
  • OpenSSL

Run the following:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make