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Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager

taws provides a terminal UI to interact with your AWS resources. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe, and manage your AWS infrastructure in the wild. taws continually watches AWS for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with your observed resources.

Download the latest release from the Releases page.

taws is built with Rust. Make sure you have Rust 1.70+ installed.

AWS Credentials - Configure your AWS credentials using one of:

IAM Permissions - Your AWS user/role needs appropriate read permissions for the services you want to browse. At minimum, you'll need Describe* and List* permissions.

Press : to open the resource picker. Type to filter resources:

taws supports 30 core AWS services covering 95%+ of typical AWS usage:

Missing a service? Start a discussion to propose adding it!

taws looks for AWS credentials in the standard locations:

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