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Announcing the new AWS CDK EKS v2 L2 Constructs

Announcing the new AWS CDK EKS v2 L2 Constructs

Introduction Today, we’re announcing the release of aws-eks-v2 construct, a new alpha version of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 construct for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This construct represents a significant change in how developers can define and manage their EKS environments using infrastructure as code. While maintaining the powerful capabilities of its predecessor […]

Use Model Context Protocol with Amazon Q Developer for context-aware IDE workflows

Use Model Context Protocol with Amazon Q Developer for context-aware IDE workflows

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plugins for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains. This allows developers to connect external tools or MCP servers to Q Developer, enabling more context-aware responses and complex workflows. MCP support has already been available in Amazon Q Developer for […]

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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 […]

Combining Snyk’s Insight with Amazon Q Developer’s Assistance to Streamline Secure Development

Developers today face a constant balancing act – building new features and functionality while also ensuring the security and reliability of their codebase. Two powerful tools, Snyk and Amazon Q Developer, can work in tandem to help developers navigate this challenge with greater efficiency and efficacy. Snyk is a leading developer security platform that empowers […]

Announcing the General Availability of the Amazon EventBridge Scheduler L2 Construct

Today we’re announcing the general availability (GA) of the Amazon EventBridge Scheduler and Targets Level 2 (L2) constructs in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) construct library. EventBridge Scheduler is a serverless scheduler that enables users to schedule tasks and events at scale. Prior to the launch of these L2 constructs, developers had to […]

Best practices for rapidly deploying Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) enables customers to deploy a flexible, configuration-driven solution to establish a landing zone while also leveraging AWS Control Tower. At AWS Professional Services, we’ve helped customers deploy and configure LZA hundreds of times. A common request we encounter is integrating LZA configuration into customers’ existing GitOps workflows. GitOps has […]

Decision flow diagram of an asset as it gets audited for garbage collection.

Announcing CDK Garbage Collection

The 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 […]

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. […]

Deploying and Managing Application Configurations using AWS AppConfig

The management of configurations across multiple environments and tenants poses a significant challenge in modern software development. Organizations must balance maintaining distinct settings for various environments while accommodating the unique needs of different tenants in multi-tenant architectures. This complexity is compounded by requirements for consistency, version control, security, and efficient troubleshooting. AWS AppConfig offers a […]