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Kaizen Conroy, Adam Keller, 02/21/2025The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open source framework that enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using a familiar programming language. Additionally, CDK provides higher level abstractions (Constructs), which reduce the complexity required to define and integrate AWS services together when building on AWS. CDK also provides core functionality like CDK Assets, which [...]
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Idriss Laouali Abdou, 02/17/2025AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), CloudFormation and CDK provide the flexibility you need. [...]
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Janardhan Molumuri, Natalie White, 01/29/2025Today, we’re announcing the release of the new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 construct for AWS Glue. This construct simplifies the correct configuration of Glue jobs, workflows, and triggers. Reviewing Glue documentation and examples of the valid parameters for each job type and language takes time, and having to rely on synth, deploy, and [...]
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Rico Huijbers, 01/14/2025AWS CDK is an open source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. It consists of two primary components: the Construct Library that you use in a programming language to model your AWS application, and a CLI. The Construct Library “synthesizes” a model of your application to [...]
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Camille BIRBES, Sriharsha Subramanya Begolli, 01/07/2025This post explores how to automate Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster management using CI/CD best practices. It presents two options: the Terraform OpenSearch provider and the Evolution library. The solution demonstrates how to use AWS CDK, Lambda, and CodeBuild to implement automated index template creation and management. By applying these techniques, organizations can improve the consistency, reliability, and efficiency of their OpenSearch operations.
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Hannah Aubry, 01/02/2025When AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) was announced in 2019, the project introduced a new stage in the evolution of infrastructure as code (IaC), and changed the way customers build on AWS. For those less familiar, CDK is an open source software development framework enabling builders to model and provision their cloud application resources using [...]
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Brian Beach, 01/02/2025Read our top ten 2024 posts: effortlessly migrate to AWS CDK; import applications into CloudFormation; Terraform deployments; streamline AWS DevOps; gain insights on CloudFormation optimizations, GitHub Action runners at scale, and AI-powered coding workflows.
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Gabriel Rodriguez Garcia, Krithivasan Balasubramaniyan, Gouri Pandeshwar, Cory Hairston, Gabriel Zylka, 11/26/2024This post serves as a step-by-step guide on how to set up lifecycle configurations for your Amazon SageMaker Studio domains. With lifecycle configurations, system administrators can apply automated controls to their SageMaker Studio domains and their users. We cover core concepts of SageMaker Studio and provide code examples of how to apply lifecycle configuration to [...]
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Benedikt Pauwels, Michael Wahlers, 11/12/2024In today’s digital world, ensuring the security of information is essential. One common scenario where data security is crucial is when files from external sources are received by an organization. While Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides robust security features like the default encryption of all uploaded files, there are scenarios where it’s important to ensure that the incoming files are free from any kind of malware, such as viruses, before they are processed or stored inside the organization. Read this post to learn more.
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Idriss Laouali Abdou, 11/11/2024AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code. CloudFormation templates can be written directly in JSON or YAML, or they can be generated by tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). These templates are submitted to the CloudFormation service and the resources are deployed together as stacks, [...]