Considering my last article was so popular, I felt it was only just to provide a follow-up to what some of my favorite Homebrew packages have been in the second half of 2020.

In my previous article on Homebrew, I highlighted some of my favorite packages such as htop, tldr, jq, ncdu, taskwarrior, and tmux.

In this article I’ll be highlighting some new packages released since my last published article, and also some hidden gems I may have glossed over or missed. So without further ado, here’s Part 2 of my list of top Homebrew packages of 2020.

AWS CLI

The AWS CLI package is exactly what it sounds like, a CLI tool administrators and engineers can use to manage their cloud infrastructure. Using API commands, you can automate and batch process tedious tasks such as starting and stopping instances or managing data in your S3 buckets.

Copying a local directory to one of my S3 buckets takes seconds

If you’re a cloud engineer or work with Amazon Web Services at all, you need to install the AWS CLI tool. It’s a widely held belief that AWS has one of the worst dashboards around, with cluttered services, ambiguous alerts, and often inaccurate or delayed data being displayed.

All of my local test files having been copied successfully to my S3 bucket

I use it mainly to manage my EC2 instances and S3 buckets. It’s rather easy to move data locally to your S3 buckets instead of trudging through the sluggish AWS Console GUI. Try it out!

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