I checked this out when it was part of Stripe. I found it worked very well for my limited use-cases.

Personally I just prefer python and boto for most of my AWS tools, but times where I've switched to go is to take advantage of static compiling and concurrency:

1. Listing all of my AWS instances in all accounts in all regions (lots of api calls!) 2. Downloading/uploading large files via multipart API 3. Various server-side configurations