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Identifying and resolving security code vulnerabilities using Snyk in AWS CI/CD Pipeline
The majority of companies have embraced open-source software (OSS) at an accelerated rate even when building proprietary applications. Some of the obvious benefits for this shift include transparency, cost, flexibility, and a faster time to market. Snyk’s unique combination of developer-first tooling and best in class security depth enables businesses to easily build security into […]
Read MoreUnit testing IAM policies across multiple accounts
When migrating applications from a development account to a testing or production account, customers often find that AWS IAM policies or Service Control Policies (SCP) for their applications need significant modification to allow the application to deploy and function correctly. This can be a time-consuming process of discovery and remediation to get an application live […]
Read MoreCustomizing triggers for AWS CodePipeline with AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch Events
AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps automate the build, test, and deploy processes of your application. Application owners use CodePipeline to manage releases by configuring “pipeline,” workflow constructs that describe the steps, from source code to deployed application, through which an application progresses as it is released. If you are […]
Read MoreBuilding Windows containers with AWS CodePipeline and custom actions
Dmitry Kolomiets, DevOps Consultant, Professional Services AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild are the primary AWS services for building CI/CD pipelines. AWS CodeBuild supports a wide range of build scenarios thanks to various built-in Docker images. It also allows you to bring in your own custom image in order to use different tools and environment configurations. […]
Read MoreCreating CI/CD pipelines for ASP.NET 4.x with AWS CodePipeline and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
By Kirk Davis, Specialized Solutions Architect, Microsoft Platform team As customers migrate ASP.NET (on .NET Framework) applications to AWS, many choose to deploy these apps with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which provides a managed .NET platform to deploy, scale, and update the apps. Customers often ask how to create CI/CD pipelines for these ASP.NET 4.x (.NET […]
Read MoreMulti-branch CodePipeline strategy with event-driven architecture
Henrique Bueno, DevOps Consultant, Professional Services This blog post presents a solution for automated pipelines creation in AWS CodePipeline when a new branch is created in an AWS CodeCommit repository. A use case for this solution is when a GitFlow approach using CodePipeline is required. The strategy presented here is used by AWS customers to […]
Read MoreDevOps at re:Invent 2019!
re:Invent 2019 is fast approaching and we here at the AWS DevOps blog wanted to take a moment to highlight DevOps focused presentations, share some tips from experienced re:Invent pro’s, and highlight a few sessions that still have availability for pre-registration. We’ve broken down the track into one overarching leadership session and four topic areas: […]
Read MoreNotifying 3rd Party Services of CodeBuild State Changes
It is often useful to notify other systems of the build status of a code change, such as by creating release tickets in your project-tracking software when a build succeeds, or posting a message to your team’s chat solution. A previous blog post showed you how to integrate AWS Lambda and Amazon SNS to extend […]
Read MoreTransforming DevOps at Broadridge on AWS
with Tom Koukourdelis (Broadridge – Vice President, Head of Global Cloud Platform Development and Engineering), Sreedhar Reddy (Broadridge – Vice President, Enterprise Cloud Architecture) We have seen large enterprises in all industry segments meaningfully utilizing AWS to build new capabilities and deliver business value. While doing so, enterprises have to balance existing systems, processes, tools, […]
Read MoreRunning AWS commands from Slack using AWS Chatbot
**This post was written while AWS Chatbot was still in beta. AWS Chatbot is now generally available. The information contained within this post is still relevant and helpful.** DevOps teams widely use Slack channels as communication hubs where team members interact—both with one another and with the systems they operate. Chatbots help facilitate these interactions, […]
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