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Ask HN: What internal tooling does AWS use for their API and Authorization?
3 points by hhthrowaway1230 on Oct 8, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Is there any documentation or sources on how they build their apis and authorization layer? It seems that its pretty consistent and follows conventions in generating:

- Generated cli tools

- Generated client libraries

- Documentation for said libraries

- Conventions for endpoints and hosting

- Authorisation via policies

Also they seem to follow an RPC style convention. Any leads on a framework that does exactly this in a consistent way so you can build your own kind of services in a similar manner

Thank you



They have a well developed internal system, recently theyve been moving to Smithy which is Open source.

https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/2.0/index.html




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