AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – Java and .NET are Now Generally Available

Today, we are happy to announce that Java and .NET support inside the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is now generally available. The AWS CDK is an open-source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources through AWS CloudFormation. AWS CDK also offers support for TypeScript and Python. With the AWS CDK, you Read more about AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – Java and .NET are Now Generally Available[…]

Announcing CloudTrail Insights: Identify and Respond to Unusual API Activity

Building software in the cloud makes it easy to instrument systems for logging from the very beginning. With tools like AWS CloudTrail, tracking every action taken on AWS accounts and services is straightforward, providing a way to find the event that caused a given change. But not all log entries are useful. When things are Read more about Announcing CloudTrail Insights: Identify and Respond to Unusual API Activity[…]

CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry

CloudFormation was launched in 2011 (AWS CloudFormation – Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe) and has become an indispensable tool for many AWS customers. They love the fact that they can define a template once and then use it to reliably provision their AWS resources. They also make frequent use of Change Sets, and Read more about CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry[…]

New – Import Existing Resources into a CloudFormation Stack

With AWS CloudFormation, you can model your entire infrastructure with text files. In this way, you can treat your infrastructure as code and apply software development best practices, such as putting it under version control, or reviewing architectural changes with your team before deployment. Sometimes AWS resources initially created using the console or the AWS Command Read more about New – Import Existing Resources into a CloudFormation Stack[…]

AWS CloudFormation Update – Public Coverage Roadmap & CDK Goodies

I launched AWS CloudFormation in early 2011 with a pair of posts: AWS CloudFormation – Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe and AWS CloudFormation in the AWS Management Console. Since that launch, we have added support for many AWS resource types, launched many new features, and worked behind the scenes to ensure that CloudFormation Read more about AWS CloudFormation Update – Public Coverage Roadmap & CDK Goodies[…]

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – TypeScript and Python are Now Generally Available

Managing your Infrastructure as Code provides great benefits and is often a stepping stone for a successful application of DevOps practices. In this way, instead of relying on manually performed steps, both administrators and developers can automate provisioning of compute, storage, network, and application services required by their applications using configuration files. For example, defining your Infrastructure as Read more about AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – TypeScript and Python are Now Generally Available[…]

Boost your infrastructure with the AWS CDK

This guest post is by AWS Container Hero Philipp Garbe. Philipp works as Lead Platform Engineer at Scout24 in Germany. He is driven by technologies and tools that allow him to release faster and more often. He expects that every commit automatically goes into production. You can find him on Twitter at @pgarbe. Infrastructure as Read more about Boost your infrastructure with the AWS CDK[…]

New – CloudFormation Drift Detection

AWS CloudFormation supports you in your efforts to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You can use a template to define the desired AWS resource configuration, and then use it to launch a CloudFormation stack. The stack contains the set of resources defined in the template, configured as specified. When you need to make a change Read more about New – CloudFormation Drift Detection[…]