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1._Introduction
awsm is a CLI for building and maintaining your infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. It's designed to streamline many of the tasks involved with setting up and scaling infrastructure across multiple AWS Regions. It's goal is to introduce as few new concepts as possible, and provide powerful tools that require only a few inputs to use.
awsmDashboard is a web interface for configuring awsm. The configuration of Classes (see Features) are done though the web interface, and you can also see a list of all of your current AWS services through the Dashboard.
Classes (short for classifications) are groups of settings for defining AWS services, stored in a SimpleDB database by awsm. Classes can be used to bootstrap assets in any AWS region, allowing you to configure once, and run anywhere.
Propagation allows you to (optionally) copy/backup assets to other regions when you create them. Currently: EBS Snapshots, AMI Images, and Launch Configurations are available for propagation - allowing you to automatically have access to the latest versions of those as you create them.
Retention (also optional) is the number of previous versions of assets to retain. Older EBS Snapshots, AMI's, and Launch Configurations can be rotated out as new ones are created, automating the task of clearing them out. EBS Snapshots and AMI's that are referenced in existing Launch Configurations are never touched.
Check out the ways that awsm can make building your AWS infrastructure easier by reading the use cases.