The Band of Misfits

The Jolly Band of AWS compatible services that AWS overlooked.

Last Updated: July 30, 2025

Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a vast collection of services that can be used to build almost anything. However, there are some patterns or functionalities that are common, can be implemented using services offered by AWS, but require some amount of work to deliver. This is where the "Band of Misfits" comes in.

The "Band of Misfits" is a collection of services that provide common functionalities not available out-of-the-box in AWS. These services are designed to be:

• Simple to use and deploy
• Built on top of AWS services
• Offering interfaces similar to AWS SDK v3
• Fully compatible with the AWS ecosystem
• Well-documented and maintained

Each project can be deployed to your AWS Account separately. It exposes a HTTP API and is invokable using a client similar to clients found in AWS SDK v3. Future versions will also include a Dashboard UI.

Getting Started

To use any of the services in the Band of Misfits:

1. Choose the service you need from "The Colorful Gang" below
2. Follow the deployment instructions in the service's README
3. Use the provided TypeScript client to interact with the service

The Colorful Gang:

• Jack in the Cloud - like Jack in the Box popping up whenever you request: scheduled notifications' delivery.
• Jimmy the Deckhand - a collection of utility functions to help with common tasks.

Project structure

Repository is built using PDK and projects align to its structure.

All projects in the "Band of Misfits" (located in the misfits/ directory) are structured in the same way. The structure is as follows:

<project>
├── README.md
├── api # API definitions
│   ├── generated # projects generated from the API definitions
│   │   ├── client # code generator for the API
│   │   ├── infrastructure # AWS infrastructure required to run the API
│   │   └── runtime # generated types for the API
│   ├── handlers # Lambda handlers for the API
│   └── model # Smithy models of the API
├── examples # examples of how to use the service
├── infra # AWS infrastructure required to run the service
└── service # service implementation