Category: AWS OpsWorks

AWS OpsWorks is an application management service. You define your application as a set of layers within a stack. Each stack provides information about the packages to be installed and configured, and can also provision any necessary AWS resources, as defined within a particular OpsWorks Layer. OpsWorks also scales your application as needed, driven by […]

AWS OpsWorks gives you the power to model and manage your entire application, from load balancers to databases. You can customize the Amazon EC2 instances in the OpsWorks layers which comprise your application stack using any desired combination of the built-in OpsWorks templates and custom Chef recipes. The recipes can install software packages and can […]

The AWS Console for iOS and Android now includes support for AWS OpsWorks. You can see your OpsWorks resources — stacks, layers, instances, apps, and deployments with the newest version of the app. It also supports EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, the Relational Database Service, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, and the Service Health Dashboard. The Android version […]

My colleague Chris Barclay reports on an important new feature for AWS OpsWorks! — Jeff; I am pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports resource-level permissions. AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that lets you provision resources, deploy and update software, automate common operational tasks, and monitor the state of your environment. You […]

Chris Barclay sent along an awesome guest post to announce the arrival of AWS OpsWorks for Java! — Jeff; I am pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports Java applications. AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that makes it easy to model and manage your entire application. You can start from templates for […]

In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with my colleague Chris Barclay to get an update on AWS OpsWorks.. We talked about what it is, what it does, how it simplifies the application deployment process, and its relationship to the DevOps model. Co-host Lee Zen and I debated the pros and cons […]

To build on the recent launch of AWS ElastiCache for Redis, Development Manager Enno Brehm sent me a guest post to show you how to set it up for use in AWS Opsworks. — Jeff; With the launch of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis it is now easier than ever to use Redis with your AWS […]

Chris Barclay sent me a nice guest post to announce that AWS OpsWorks is now available in the Virtual Private Cloud. — Jeff; I am pleased to announce support for using AWS OpsWorks with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps solution that makes it easy to deploy, customize and manage […]