GitHub – huseyinbabal/taws: Terminal UI for AWS (taws)

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.

• Multi-Profile Support – Easily switch between AWS profiles
• Multi-Region Support – Navigate across different AWS regions
• 94+ Resource Types – Browse and manage resources across 60+ AWS services
• Real-time Updates – Refresh resources with a single keystroke
• Keyboard-Driven – Vim-like navigation and commands
• Resource Actions – Start, stop, terminate EC2 instances directly
• Detailed Views – JSON/YAML view of resource details
• Filtering – Filter resources by name or attributes
• Autocomplete – Smart resource type autocomplete with fuzzy matching

brew install huseyinbabal/tap/taws

Download the latest release from the Releases page.

# macOS Apple Silicon
curl -sL https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws/releases/latest/download/taws-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv taws /usr/local/bin/

# macOS Intel
curl -sL https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws/releases/latest/download/taws-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv taws /usr/local/bin/

# Linux x86_64
curl -sL https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws/releases/latest/download/taws-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv taws /usr/local/bin/

# Linux ARM64
curl -sL https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws/releases/latest/download/taws-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv taws /usr/local/bin/

1. Download taws-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip from the Releases page
2. Extract the zip file
3. Add the extracted folder to your PATH, or move taws.exe to a directory in your PATH

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

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws.git
cd taws

# Build and run
cargo build --release
./target/release/taws

• AWS Credentials – Configure your AWS credentials using one of:

  • aws configure (AWS CLI)
  • Environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
  • IAM roles (when running on EC2/ECS/Lambda)
  • AWS profiles in ~/.aws/credentials

• 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.

# Launch taws with default profile
taws

# Launch with a specific profile
taws --profile production

# Launch in a specific region
taws --region us-west-2

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

:ec2          # EC2 Instances
:lambda       # Lambda Functions
:s3           # S3 Buckets
:rds          # RDS Instances
:iam-users    # IAM Users
:eks          # EKS Clusters

Use Tab to autocomplete and Enter to select.

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:

• ~/.aws/credentials
• ~/.aws/config
• Environment variables

• Some resources may require specific IAM permissions not covered by basic read-only policies
• Resource counts may vary during loading due to pagination
• Some global services (IAM, Route53, CloudFront) always use us-east-1

Contributions are welcome! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

Important: Before adding a new AWS service, please start a discussion first.

• Inspired by k9s – the awesome Kubernetes CLI
• Built with Ratatui – Rust TUI library
• Uses aws-sigv4 for request signing

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE file for details.

Made with ❤️ for the AWS community