How To Get All AWS Resources Via API

AWS provides an SDK called @aws-sdk/client-config-service, which allows you to query all AWS resources using an SQL command.

To start off, install the SDK with a package manager of your choice.

$ npm install @aws-sdk/client-config-service
$ yarn add @aws-sdk/client-config-service

Then initialize the Config Service Client class which takes several arguments, with your account credentials and region being the essential ones.

const configClient = new ConfigServiceClient({
  region,
  credentials,
})

The next, and most important step, is to initialize SelectResourceConfigCommand by passing an SQL SELECT query into the class' constructor.

const params: SelectResourceConfigCommandInput = {
  Expression: "SELECT *", // Get ALL resources
}

const command = new SelectResourceConfigCommand(params)

Last, but not least, send your query to AWS and receive a response with your requested data of type SelectResourceConfigCommandOutput.

const response = await client.send(command)