Embarking on an AWS journey can be both thrilling and overwhelming for teams. There are a lot of concepts to grasp when starting out with AWS. In this talk I’ll share some of the (open source) tools and libraries I’ve used over the last years while trying get enterprise teams up to speed and flatten the team’s learning curve. These tools help teams benefit from battle-tested solutions, invaluable insights, and time-saving best practices. Tools involved will help with applying best practices, hardening security and compliance, and reduce boilerplate code. After this talks you should have some additional tools on your belt that can help new and existing teams improve their efficiency.