Category: Developer Tools

Guest post in collaboration with Company 3 Director of New Technology, Phil Wortas, and Senior New Technology Engineer, Matthew Galloway Introduction Company 3 provides specialized services for the entertainment industry, including post-production services, visual effects, and color grading for feature films, commercials, and television content. Their teams collaborate globally to Increase workflow efficiency and expand […]

AWS CloudFormation helps you model and provision cloud infrastructure as code using JSON or YAML templates, or through tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). Whether you create stacks directly, use change sets for preview, or deploy through CI/CD pipelines and AI agents, the speed of your deployment […]

AWS CloudFormation helps you model and provision cloud infrastructure as code using JSON or YAML templates, or through tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Whether you create stacks directly, use change sets for preview, or deploy through CI/CD pipelines and AI agents, fast feedback on template errors is critical to development velocity. Previously, […]

Introduction Organizations that use feature flags alongside incident response tooling often connect the two manually. When an outage occurs, engineers must identify which flags are relevant, decide whether to disable them, and coordinate the change across teams. This manual process adds latency at the moment it matters most. You can use AWS DevOps Agent and […]

Confirmation bias is one of the most common reasons incident investigations take longer than they should. An on-call engineer gets alerted, forms a theory based on initial triage and experience, finds one piece of supporting evidence, and stops looking. The actual root cause — buried in a different service, a different signal, a different time […]

We are excited to announce CDK Mixins, a feature of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that fundamentally changes how you compose and reuse infrastructure abstractions. In this post, you will learn how to use CDK Mixins to apply sophisticated features to any construct – whether L1, L2, or custom – without being locked into […]

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. Managing infrastructure across multiple AWS […]

This is a guest post written by Jasdeep Singh Bhalla from GoDaddy. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Aspects are a powerful mechanism that allows you to apply organization-wide policies, like security rules, tagging standards, and compliance requirements across your entire infrastructure as code. By implementing the Visitor pattern, Aspects can inspect and modify every construct […]

Standardizing CDK construct properties across a large organization requires repetitive manual effort that scales poorly as teams and repositories grow. Development teams working with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) must apply the same configuration properties across similar resources to meet security, compliance, and operational standards but manual configuration leads to drift, maintenance burden, and […]

March 2026: This post has been updated to reflect that Amazon ECS now supports canary and linear deployment strategies natively as of October 2025. The recommendation has been updated accordingly to reflect ECS-native as the default choice for new deployments. Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have long been a go-to pattern […]