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λ Gordon vs AWS CLI: What are the differences?

λ Gordon: A tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas. Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation ; AWS CLI: * Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services*. It is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

λ Gordon and AWS CLI belong to "AWS Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by λ Gordon are:

  • 100% CloudFormation resource creation
  • 100% Boilerplate free
  • 100% isolated and dead-simple multi-stage and multi region deployments

On the other hand, AWS CLI provides the following key features:

  • File Commands for Amazon S3
  • Control multiple AWS services
  • URI-based Parameter Input

λ Gordon and AWS CLI are both open source tools. It seems that AWS CLI with 9.02K GitHub stars and 2.01K forks on GitHub has more adoption than λ Gordon with 2.05K GitHub stars and 145 GitHub forks.

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What is AWS CLI?

It is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

What is λ Gordon?

Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation

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