Code

AWS also provides a number of open source projects as services (https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-reinvent-2016-open-source-at-awscontributions-support-and-engagementarc213). This allows them to leverage large active communities for product development and bug hunting. In the case of the AWS Software Development Kit for Python, Boto (https://github.com/boto/boto3), Amazon has taken over the project. We're not going to go into all of the benefits of open source here, but remember that many of the services included in our patterns are available as source code to everyone. 

Coding is going to be an important part of your product, the systems that run it, and the people that use it. We'll be writing code to allow the reuse and modification of our cloud patterns. To get into the spirit of things, we'll be using a cloud-based development tool that was originally written by the open source Mozilla foundation. A group of the developers decided to create a freemium model to provide support for people using their Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Cloud9. Amazon bought the company—another great pattern for applying to your product.