AWSOS-P1: Exploring the vast and growing AWS Open Source - Part 1

AWSOS-P1: Exploring the vast and growing AWS Open Source - Part 1

AWSOS-P1: Exploring the vast and growing AWS Open Source - Part 1

With this Part from the series of articles on the “Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Source » We will begin our exploration of the vast and growing catalog of open apps developed by the Technological Giant de «Amazon.

In order to continue expanding our knowledge of the open applications released by each of the Technological Giants of the group known as GAFAM. What, as many already know, is made up of the following North American companies: "Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft".

GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source

GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source

For those interested in exploring our initial publication related to the topic, you can click on the following link, after finishing reading this publication:

“Today, both public and private organizations are progressively moving towards a greater integration of Free Software and Open Source to their business models, platforms, products and services. That is to say, free and open technologies are increasingly an important part of the way of working in and out of them, for the benefit of their owners, clients or citizens. " GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source.

GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source
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AWSOS-P1: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Source - Part 1

AWSOS-P1: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Source - Part 1

Applications of the AWS Open Source

Before starting, it is worth highlighting the official website of AWS Open Source (AWSOS) your own self-description:

“Since its inception, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the best place for customers to create and run open source software in the cloud. AWS is proud to support open source projects, foundations, and partners. We believe open source is good for everyone, and we are committed to bringing the value of open source to our customers and AWS operational excellence to open source communities. Some of the most popular open source tools, platforms, databases, and services on AWS are based on leading open source projects. ”

Furthermore, the AWS Open Source can be explored through the following 3 links below GitHub:

  1. AWS Open Source
  2. Amazon Web Services repositories
  3. Amazon File Repositories

AWS Open Source applications - part 1

From the first site mentioned, "Open Source at AWS", these are the first Apps on the list:

Amazon FreeRTOS

Briefly, on the website «AWS Open Source » of the AWSOS describe this application as follows:

"It is an Operating System for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage."

While his website on GitHub add the following on top of it, as follows:

"It is an IoT Operating System for microcontrollers, which has an open source license from MIT, which is a permissive license with limited restrictions on the reuse of the product."

Finally, from your official section on Amazon It is worth highlighting the following information:

“It is an open source, real-time Operating System for microcontrollers that makes it easy to program, deploy, protect, connect, and manage small, low-power edge devices. It is distributed free of charge under the MIT open source license, includes a kernel and a growing set of software libraries suitable for use in all segments and applications of the sector. And it has been designed with an emphasis on reliability and ease of use, offering the predictability of long-term support releases. "

Apache MXNet

Briefly, on the website «AWS Open Source » of the AWSOS describe this application as follows:

“It is a deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility. What's more, it allows to mix symbolic and imperative programming to maximize efficiency and productivity.

While his website on GitHub add the following on top of it, as follows:

“At its core, MXNet contains a dynamic dependency scheduler that automatically parallelizes symbolic and imperative operations on the fly. A graphics optimization layer makes symbolic execution fast and memory efficient. MXNet is portable and lightweight, scalable to many GPUs and machines. MXNet is more than a deep learning project. It is a community with a mission to democratize AI. It's a collection of blueprints and guidelines for building deep learning systems, and an interesting take on DL systems for hackers. "

Finally, from your Official website It is worth highlighting the following information:

"It is a true open source deep learning framework suitable for flexible research and production prototyping."

AWS Amplify

Briefly, on the website «AWS Open Source » of the AWSOS describe this application as follows:

"It is an excellent JavaScript library for Front-End and Mobile developers, who create applications in the cloud."

While his website on GitHub add the following on top of it, as follows:

"Parts of this library are: Amplify-JS, Amplify-CLI, Amplify-iOS, Amplify-Android and Amplify-Flutter."

Finally, from your official section on Amazon It is worth highlighting the following information:

“It is a set of tools and services that can be used together or individually to help web and mobile frontend developers build scalable full-stack applications, powered by AWS. With Amplify, you can configure application backends and connect your application in minutes, deploy static web applications with just a few clicks, and easily manage application content outside of the AWS console. Amplify supports popular web frameworks, such as JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, and Next.js, as well as mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, React Native, Ionic, and Flutter. "

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Conclusion

We hope this "useful little post" about this first exploration of «AWS Open Source (AWSOS)», offers an interesting and wide variety of open applications developed by the Technological Giant of «Amazon»; and is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».

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