# aws/aws-sdk-go **Attribution required: if you use, quote, or summarise this content, you must credit and link back to [awesome-repositories.com](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/aws-aws-sdk-go).** 8,687 stars · 2,044 forks · Go · Apache-2.0 · archived ## Links - GitHub: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go - awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/aws-aws-sdk-go.md ## Description The AWS SDK for Go is a software development kit and cloud infrastructure library used to programmatically interact with AWS cloud services. It provides a programmatic interface for authenticating requests, executing operations against regional endpoints, and automating the creation and management of cloud resources. The toolkit utilizes model-driven code generation to create service clients and employs a session-based configuration system to share credentials and global settings across those clients. It implements signature-based request authentication to verify identity and integrity through cryptographic hashing. The SDK covers broad capability areas including cloud resource orchestration via state-based polling, large-scale data retrieval through response pagination, and the management of multipart data transfers. It also handles request-response serialization to convert data structures into wire-format requests. ## Tags ### DevOps & Infrastructure - [AWS API Clients](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/aws-api-clients.md) — Provides a programmatic interface for authenticating requests and executing operations against AWS regional endpoints. - [Cloud Infrastructure Automation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-infrastructure-automation.md) — Provides a comprehensive library for automating the creation and management of AWS cloud resources via programmatic APIs. - [AWS API Integrations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/aws-api-integrations.md) — Connects Go applications to AWS services by handling authentication, request signing, and endpoint configuration. - [Resource State Monitoring](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-infrastructure/cloud-computing-serverless/cloud-orchestration-automation/cloud-resource-api-management/resource-state-monitoring.md) — Implements state-based polling mechanisms to monitor and orchestrate the lifecycle of virtual cloud resources. - [AWS Provisioners](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-provisioning/aws-provisioners.md) — Provides the programmatic means to automate the deployment and management of AWS infrastructure. - [Cloud Service Integrations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-service-integrations.md) — Provides a programmatic interface to automate and control AWS cloud infrastructure through service-specific API calls. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#readme)) - [State Polling](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-infrastructure-management/resource-state-modeling/state-polling.md) — Pauses execution until a specific cloud resource reaches a desired state or a timeout occurs. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#readme)) - [Cloud Resource Orchestrators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-resource-orchestrators.md) — Automates the lifecycle of virtual resources by polling for state changes and managing dependencies. ### Development Tools & Productivity - [Schema-Driven Code Generators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/project-scaffolding-config-code-generation/code-generation/schema-driven-code-generators.md) — Generates type-safe service client code by parsing structured API definitions into Go source files. ### Programming Languages & Runtimes - [Go SDKs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/programming-languages-runtimes/go-sdks.md) — Provides a comprehensive software development kit for interacting with AWS cloud services using the Go programming language. ### Security & Cryptography - [Configuration Sessions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/identity-access-management/authentication-strategies/session-and-credential-handling/session-credential-management/configuration-sessions.md) — Shares global configuration and credentials across multiple service clients through a centralized session object. - [Request Signing Strategies](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/request-signing-strategies.md) — Implements cryptographic request signing to verify identity and integrity for all outgoing service API calls. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#readme)) - [Outgoing Request Signing](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/signature-verification-tools/outgoing-request-signing.md) — Signs outgoing API requests using cryptographic hashing to verify identity and request integrity. ### Web Development - [API Client SDK Generators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/api-client-sdk-generators.md) — Parses service models to automatically generate type-safe client SDKs for AWS services. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/tree/main/awstesting)) - [Cloud API Request Execution](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/api-request-configurations/cloud-api-request-execution.md) — Provides the core mechanism for executing authenticated HTTP requests to AWS regional service endpoints. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#readme)) - [Response Serialization](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/response-serialization.md) — Converts Go data structures into wire-format requests and parses service responses into strongly typed objects. - [API Pagination](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/api-pagination.md) — Implements cursor-based retrieval patterns to process large datasets from AWS services in sequential chunks. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#readme)) ### Data & Databases - [AWS Data Retrieval](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/data-databases/aws-data-retrieval.md) — Fetches large datasets from AWS services using pagination and handling multipart object downloads. - [Paginated Results](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/data-databases/query-aggregates/paginated-results.md) — Handles large result sets using callback functions to iterate through paginated API responses. ### Networking & Communication - [Regional API Endpoint Mapping](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/networking-communication/regional-api-endpoint-mapping.md) — Allows specifying target regions and endpoint metadata to route requests to correct geographic locations. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#readme)) ### Software Engineering & Architecture - [Polling Mechanisms](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/event-driven-architectures/polling-mechanisms.md) — Executes repeated API checks and evaluates responses until a target resource state is reached. - [Service Configuration](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/service-configuration.md) — Allows setting global and service-specific options like region and retry logic using shared configurations. ([source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/main/README.md)) ### Part of an Awesome List - [Developer Tools](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devtools/developer-tools.md) — Official language-specific library for building applications on cloud infrastructure. - [Language SDKs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devtools/language-sdks.md) — Official Go SDK for AWS service integration.