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Idriss Laouali Abdou

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Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance

Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance

Streamline your AWS infrastructure development with AI-powered documentation search, validation, and troubleshooting Introduction Today, we’re excited to introduce the AWS Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) MCP Server, a new tool that bridges the gap between AI assistants and your AWS infrastructure development workflow. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server enables AI assistants like Kiro CLI, […]

CloudFormation Deployment validation feature

Accelerate infrastructure development with CloudFormation pre-deployment validation and simplified troubleshooting

AWS 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). Resources are created and managed by CloudFormation as units called Stacks. Additionally, change set enable you […]

Simplify Multi-Account Deployments Monitoring: Centralized Logs for AWS CloudFormation StackSets

How to Simplify Multi-Account Deployments Monitoring: Centralized Logs for AWS CloudFormation StackSets

Introduction As organizations adopt multi-account strategies for improved security features and governance, AWS CloudFormation StackSets enables organizations to deploy infrastructure across multiple accounts and regions. However, monitoring and tracking these distributed deployments across multiple accounts presents operational challenges. When a critical security baseline deployed across 50 accounts suddenly starts failing, teams face the daunting task of logging […]

AWS CloudFormation- 2024 Year in Review blog

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review

AWS 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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Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view

AWS 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, […]