Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit

In this series, we talk about Swisscom’s journey of automating Amazon Redshift provisioning as part of the Swisscom One Data Platform (ODP) solution using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and we provide code snippets and the other useful references. In Part 1, we did a deep dive on provisioning a secure and compliant […]

In this post, we deep dive into provisioning a secure and compliant Redshift cluster using the AWS CDK and discuss the best practices of secret rotation. We also explain how Swisscom used AWS CDK custom resources in automating the creation of dynamic user groups that are relevant for the AWS Identity and Access management (IAM) roles matching different job functions.

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Our customers want to make sure their users have the best experience running their application on AWS. To make this happen, you need to monitor and fix software problems as quickly as […]

This blog post was last reviewed and updated July 2022, to be consistent with the new menu interface launched by the AWS Analytics Automation Toolkit. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, widely popular cloud data warehouse that powers the modern data architecture enabling fast and deep insights or machine learning (ML) predictions using SQL […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports multiple instance types based on your use case. In 2021, AWS announced general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g, R6gd) instance types for Amazon OpenSearch Service version 7.9 or later powered by AWS […]