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Top 23 Python Cloud Projects
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LocalStack
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Project mention: Queue-Based Exponential Backoff: A Resilient Retry Pattern for Distributed Systems | dev.to | 2025-10-20LocalStack - Local development with SQS
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-02
but, hey, at least they get to be ultimately dynamic, leading to horeshit like this https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.28.22/awscli/botocore/...
What does `create_client` return?! don't you worry your pretty head about it, it'll be whatever you want it to be! flexability!!11
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SaltStack
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Of course, booting from a disk is not the only option. If you want to automate installs across servers - you have to boot from the network. That is something you could play around with, in GNS3 for example, using FAI or your own system based on SaltStack. You could skip the installation altogether, and use a Live Image, or a Thin Client.
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awesome-aws
A curated list of awesome Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources. Featuring the Fiery Meter of AWSome.
Inspired by awesome list and donnemartin/awesome-aws.
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View the Project on GitHub
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prowler
Prowler is the Open Cloud Security for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, M365 and more. As agent-less, it helps for continuous monitoring, security assessments & audits, incident response, compliance, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, ENS and more
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Project mention: Launch Your First Serverless API: Hands-On with AWS Chalice on AWS Lambda | dev.to | 2025-08-19
If you're new to serverless, Chalice's minimal setup gets you deploying faster. Check the official GitHub for the latest updates: aws/chalice.
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Stream
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server
The Triton Inference Server provides an optimized cloud and edge inferencing solution. (by triton-inference-server)
Project mention: Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-17Also it REALLY jams me up that this is a thing, complicating discussions: https://github.com/triton-inference-server/server
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dev-setup
macOS development environment setup: Easy-to-understand instructions with automated setup scripts for developer tools like Vim, Sublime Text, Bash, iTerm, Python data analysis, Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, AWS, Heroku, JavaScript web development, Android development, common data stores, and dev-based OS X defaults.
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cloud-custodian
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Project mention: Show HN: Infrabase: Natural language rules engine to manage your cloud account | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-13[2] Cloud Custodian: https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
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apache-libcloud
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
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dstack
dstack is an open-source control plane for running development, training, and inference jobs on GPUs—across hyperscalers, neoclouds, or on-prem.
Project mention: Orchestrating GPUs in data centers and private clouds | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18Super excited to hear any feedback.
[1] https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/issues/2184
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optscale
FinOps and cloud cost optimization tool. Supports AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud and Kubernetes.
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cloudproxy
Hide your scrapers IP behind the cloud. Provision proxy servers across different cloud providers to improve your scraping success.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Cloud projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LocalStack | 62,966 |
| 2 | aws-cli | 16,511 |
| 3 | SaltStack | 14,904 |
| 4 | awesome-aws | 13,696 |
| 5 | docker-android | 13,465 |
| 6 | prowler | 12,310 |
| 7 | chalice | 10,959 |
| 8 | server | 10,005 |
| 9 | boto3 | 9,591 |
| 10 | ScoutSuite | 7,415 |
| 11 | aws-shell | 7,326 |
| 12 | dev-setup | 6,213 |
| 13 | cloud-custodian | 5,839 |
| 14 | SAWS | 5,292 |
| 15 | azure-cli | 4,362 |
| 16 | leptonai | 2,797 |
| 17 | policy_sentry | 2,119 |
| 18 | apache-libcloud | 2,094 |
| 19 | nixops | 2,063 |
| 20 | dstack | 1,953 |
| 21 | mist-ce | 1,899 |
| 22 | optscale | 1,766 |
| 23 | cloudproxy | 1,621 |
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