The .NET sdk is pretty fantastic as well.
But anyway, goamz is "Hashicorp's" AWS Go SDK in that Hashicorp forked it and refused to work with the larger community because it's "critical" to their business. This has, at least until super recently, stranded certain functionality into the different forks and severely fractured the AWS Go offerings. True story.
Ultimately, what the Go community probably needs most is Amazon to step up and support a Go SDK officially. The Java, Ruby, .Net, and even Python SDK's are very robust at this point. I can't speak to the others.
Re:Atlas by Hashicorp
by alexatkeplar on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @06:19AM
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Good to hear about the .NET library. I hadn't heard the story about goamz, that's unfortunate. I do know that there are SDKs which Amazon _only_ make available in Java and Python, e.g. the Kinesis Client Library (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/kinesis-record...).
This Clojure library agrees with you, it reflects and post-processes the AWS Java library. https://github.com/mcohen01/amazonica
But you're right, maintaining even a blessed third-party library like boto is a massive undertaking: 437 contributors, 431 open issues, 192 open PRs. Competing against CloudFormation using anything other than the Java client library is crazy IMO.