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.