AWSDocs Archive

This tool allows you to be able to retrieve all documentation for AWS providing you with a local copy you can archive, search, and diff for security research. I used this repository to create a Bedrock Knowledge Base for querying with AI.

• Retrieves all sitemap.xml files
• Recursively retrieves all links within them
• Ignores all URLs included in the sitemaps that do not include docs.aws.amazon.com
• Ignores all non https links
• Avoids most AWS SDK documentation
• Supports both outputting as warc or html file formats
• Saves all files by aws_warcs/ or aws_html/ and YYYY/MM/DD/docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/index.warc

Usage

The following command allows you to be able to retrieve all the documentation in aws_warcs/YYYY/MM/DD.

awsdocs --rate-limit --workers 15 -logfile=awsdocs.log

Searching

One thing I discovered as part of this project was ripgrep which helped massively reduce the time to search through all the files recursively as quickly as possible. Grep took 36.78s and ripgrep spent 0.67s for the exact same search. So I strongly advise getting familiar with ripgrep to help speed up your search.

Retrieve URLs From Query

To search for a specific string and retrieve all AWS Documentation urls containing that string you can use a combination of ripgrep and xargs to do so.

$ cd 2024/09/26/docs.aws.amazon.com
$ rg "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket-" . -l | xargs -I {} rg "Warc-Target-Uri" {} | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries_WritingCanary_Nodejs.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/tables-location-format.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference-example.html

Simple Search

$ rg "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket-" .
./athena/latest/ug/tables-location-format.warc
101:        <b>Use</b>:</p><pre class="programlisting"><div class="code-btn-container"></div><!--DEBUG: cli ()--><code class="nohighlight">s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/<code class="replaceable">folder</code>/</code></pre><pre class="programlisting"><div class="code-btn-container"></div><!--DEBUG: cli ()--><code class="nohighlight">s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket-<code class="replaceable">metadata</code>-s3alias/<code class="replaceable">folder</code>/</code></pre><p>Do not use any of the following items for specifying the <code class="code">LOCATION</code> for your

./bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference-example.warc
95:        "s3Uri": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket-input/abc.jsonl"
101:        "s3Uri": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket-output/"

./AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries_WritingCanary_Nodejs.warc
337:   "ArtifactS3Location":"s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket-123456789012-us-west-2",