Category: Developer Tools

In this post, we detail the concepts, processes, and steps to get started with policy as code (PaC) and adopt this into your software development lifecycle. PaC can improve your overall security posture, improve consistency of service usage across your organization, and reduce rework or workloads deployed to your AWS accounts.

As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage their containerized applications, implementing robust security measures and maintaining compliance become critical. The scalable and flexible nature of Amazon EKS has made it a popular choice for businesses seeking to streamline their application deployment and management processes. However, with this adoption comes the […]

Learn about best practices and components that define a great blueprint while exploring a fully working, serverless blueprint.

Learn how to use Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK to simplify integration of common tooling and provisioning of complete, opinionated EKS clusters that meet specific application requirements. This solution is designed to replace the deprecated Amazon EKS Quick Start.

One way to alleviate the pain of drift in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads is to use a GitOps workflow to automate Amazon Machine Image (AMI) builds with AWS CodePipeline. In this post, we show you how to deploy a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, managed by CodePipeline, to build AMIs.

Learn how to reduce the use of managing secret and access keys and quickly deploy all the resources. Use version control to track all changes and enable better control in a multiaccount infrastructure.

Learn how to integrate Checkov into CodePipeline with fully automated pre-deployment compliance checks of your Terraform scripts, including built-in notifications. Our solution provides an end-to-end, automated CI/CD pipeline that allows you to stay compliant with AWS best-practices with minimal operational overhead.

Learn to use CloudFormation custom resources in multistack AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) applications to read parameters across AWS Regions.

Have you created permission sets and assigned them to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups in AWS Organizations? Have you used existing corporate identities with AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) to grant Active Directory groups access to AWS accounts and applications? Save time and minimize errors by managing permission sets automatically with a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline built with AWS developer tools.

AWS collaborated with the Pacific Science Center (PacSci) in Seattle to build a customized light display in the iconic arches of PacSci’s Seattle Center campus. This post will show you how to deploy the PacSci automated sports data polling system for your use.