AWS eXtensions for Emacs

axe lets you use Emacs as a frontend for interacting with AWS resources. It makes available a number of tasks, such as listing buckets, invoking lambdas and tailing logs, ergonomically available through emacs.

The package relies on the AWS APIs, rather than the CLI. The reasoning behind this design decision (rather than depending on the AWS CLI) are:

0. The AWS CLI utility is no longer a runtime dependency.
1. The AWS CLI utility v1 and v2 have version differences
2. The AWS APIs are platform independent.
3. AXE can more easily control when updating to a new API version rather than dealing with current and future breaking changes between AWS CLI versions
4. The AWS APIs provide a more consistent response structure to operate upon.

This project is in a very early form. A lot of things may change. Breaking changes to the interactive functions will be avoided. However, implementing against some of the internal interfaces could possibly cause some heartburn with future changes.

The variables aws-access-key-id and aws-secret-access-key can be defined to set access key id and secret access key. If not specified, these values will be read from the AWS credential file set to aws-credential-file, which defaults to the <user-home>/.aws/credentials.

A profile can be set using axe-profile (defaults to 'default').

Keybindings to specific interactive should be implemented by the user. There isn't currently a recommended list.

The axe-api-response-list-mode does provide a set of keybindings for dealing with API responses.

0. n: Request and display the next API response using the next token from the latest response.
1. N: Enable auto-follow in the buffer. If a next token is provided in an API response, the next response will be requested and displayed after a configured delay.
2. s: Stop auto-following.

Additional keybindings may be added by use case.

• STS API https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_AssumeRole.html
• Make requests with assumed role
• Documentation needs work
• IAM -- view roles, policies, users, etc.