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Boosting Unit Test Automation at Audible with Amazon Q Developer
Audible, an Amazon company, is a leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. With a vast library of over 1,000,000 titles including audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals with specific curated offerings available in each marketplace, Audible makes it easy to transform everyday moments into extraordinary opportunities for learning, imagination, and entertainment through immersive audio experiences. […]
Streamline Operational Troubleshooting with Amazon Q Developer CLI
Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative AI–powered assistant for software development, helping developers perform complex workflows. Amazon Q Developer command-line interface (CLI) combines conversational AI with direct access to AWS services, helping you understand, build, and operate applications more effectively. The Amazon Q Developer CLI executes commands, analyzes outputs, and provides contextual recommendations […]
Access Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Q Developer CLI
Amazon Q Developer now supports Claude Sonnet 4 within the CLI, bringing advanced coding and reasoning capabilities to your development workflows at no additional cost. This latest model excels in coding with a state-of-the-art 72.7% for agentic coding on the SWE-bench (see Claude 4 announcement for more information). With enhanced coding and reasoning capabilities, it […]
Proactively validate your AWS CloudFormation templates with AWS Lambda
AWS CloudFormation is a service that allows you to define, manage, and provision your AWS cloud infrastructure using code. To enhance this process and ensure your infrastructure meets your organization’s standards, AWS offers CloudFormation Hooks. These Hooks are extension points that allow you to invoke custom logic at specific points during CloudFormation stack operations, enabling […]
Deploy CloudFormation Hooks to an Organization with service-managed StackSets
This post demonstrates using AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy CloudFormation Hooks from a centralized delegated administrator account to all accounts within an Organization Unit(OU). It provides step-by-step guidance to deploy controls at scale to your AWS Organization as Hooks using StackSets. By following this post, you will learn how to deploy a hook to hundreds […]
Using AWS CodePipeline for deploying container images to AWS Lambda Functions
AWS Lambda launched support for packaging and deploying functions as container images at re:Invent 2020. In the post working with Lambda layers and extensions in container images, we demonstrated packaging Lambda Functions with layers while using container images. This post will teach you to use AWS CodePipeline to deploy docker images for microservices architecture involving […]
Event-driven architecture for using third-party Git repositories as source for AWS CodePipeline
In the post Using Custom Source Actions in AWS CodePipeline for Increased Visibility for Third-Party Source Control, we demonstrated using custom actions in AWS CodePipeline and a worker that periodically polls for jobs and processes further to get the artifact from the Git repository. In this post, we discuss using an event-driven architecture to trigger […]
How to Test and Debug AWS CodeDeploy Locally Before You Ship Your Code
AWS CodeDeploy is a powerful service for automating deployments to Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and on-premises servers. However, it can take some effort to get complex deployments up and running or to identify the error in your application when something goes wrong. When I set up new deployments or debug existing ones, I like to […]






