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.
Upcoming Open Source Events
Open Jobs in Open Source
- Software Development Engineer - AWS Lambda – Seattle
- AWS Solution Builder, Strategic Accounts – Palo Alto
- Open Source Technologist, Robotics – Palo Alto (because this role will work closely with the OSRF)
- Senior Open Source Engineer – Seattle
- Sr. Leader, Open Source Development Compliance – Seattle
- Senior Software Development Engineer, Open Source Kubernetes – Seattle
- Senior Software Development Engineer, Managed Streaming for Kafka – Seattle
- Senior Software Development Engineer, Distributed Systems, Amazon EMR – Palo Alto
- Senior Software Development Engineer, Distributed Systems, Amazon EMR – New York
- Software Development Manager, JDK/JVM Development, Amazon Corretto – Palo Alto
- Software Development Engineer, OpenJDK Performance, Amazon Corretto – Palo Alto
- Senior Software Development Engineer, JVM and JDK, Amazon Corretto – Palo Alto
- Software Development Engineer, AWS Amplify Toolchain – Seattle
Latest Posts About Open Source
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
- Elasticsearch: Open Distro for Elasticsearch
- 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
- Robot Operating System (ROS)
Our Open Source Projects
We have over 1600 projects on GitHub, including:
- 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 App Mesh, a service mesh to manage service-to-service communication
- aws-cli, the universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
- AWS ParallelCluster, cluster management tool to deploy and manage HPC clusters in the AWS cloud
- Chalice, a Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
- Firecracker, secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
- All AWS SDKs are open sourced,including Go, Java, JavaScript, Boto (for Python), PHP, Ruby, and more
- Runtimes for Lambda: C++ and Rust
- 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 Memberships & Sponsorships
Foundations
- Alliance for Open Media, Member
- Apache Software Foundation (Platinum Sponsor)
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Platinum Member
- Core Infrastructure Initiative, Founding Member
- GraphQL Foundation, Founding Member
- Linux Foundation, Silver Member
- Open Container Initiative, Founding Member
- Open MPI, Member
- Open Network User Group (ONUG), Member
- Open Source Initiative, Sponsoring Member
- Open Souce Robotics Foundation, Member
- Python Software Foundation
- ToDo Group, Member
- W3C
- Xen at Linux Foundation, Founding Advisory Member
Events Sponsored in 2018
- 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
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