safeaws checks your AWS CLI commands before they are run

As a heavy AWS user, you probably know the struggle of needing to edit an existing AWS resource. Sometimes, the AWS CLI is just so much easier to use than the AWS Console, whether it’s more programmatically friendly or the API isn’t yet supported in the Console.

You end up copying a nicely drafted AWS CLI snippet from StackOverflow, or recently, one generated by a GenAI.

Are you that confident the AWS API call would not make any breaking changes? Any potential side effects with your call? Have you familarized yourself with all arguments?

This is when I came up with the idea of the safeaws CLI wrapper: (Btw, I am pronouncing as “Safe”-“W”-“S”.):

Read further in my original article on Dev.to.