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AWS Shell vs Blox: What are the differences?

AWS Shell: An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI (by AWS). The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services; Blox: Open Source Tools for Amazon ECS. Blox is a collection of open source projects for container management and orchestration. Blox gives you more control over how your containerized applications run on Amazon ECS. It enables you to build schedulers and integrate third-party schedulers on top of ECS, while leveraging Amazon ECS to fully manage and scale your clusters.

AWS Shell and Blox belong to "AWS Tools" category of the tech stack.

AWS Shell and Blox are both open source tools. It seems that AWS Shell with 4.9K GitHub stars and 410 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Blox with 895 GitHub stars and 82 GitHub forks.

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What is AWS Shell?

The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.

What is Blox?

Blox is a collection of open source projects for container management and orchestration. Blox gives you more control over how your containerized applications run on Amazon ECS. It enables you to build schedulers and integrate third-party schedulers on top of ECS, while leveraging Amazon ECS to fully manage and scale your clusters.

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