AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog
Category: Learning Levels
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 […]
Leverage Amazon Q Developer and AWS Chatbot within Slack
The release of Amazon Q Developer and its ability to be integrated into AWS Chatbot allows users who use Microsoft Teams or Slack to stay within their communication platform and interact with a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) AWS expert. Amazon Q Developer is a conversational generative AI chatbot that provides AWS assistance in the form of […]
Instant Well-Architected CDK Resources with Solutions Constructs Factories
For several years, AWS Solutions Constructs have helped thousands of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) users accelerate their creation of well-architected workloads by providing small, composable patterns linking two or more AWS services, such as an Amazon S3 bucket triggering an AWS Lambda function. Over this time, customers with use cases that don’t match an […]
Five ways to optimize code with Amazon Q Developer
Practical improvement and optimization of software quality requires expert-level knowledge across various subjects. As such, in this blog we shall look at how Amazon Q Developer can help improve your development team productivity and application stability by enabling automation around code optimization by improving your code’s quality, performance, application infrastructure specifications. The blog will also look […]
Code security scanning with Amazon Q Developer
A primary objective of software developers is to develop products that uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security, fostering trust and confidence among their users and customers. Developers seek to secure their software by identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in their codebase, thereby enhancing its resilience against cyber threats. Amazon Q Developer, a […]
Accelerate Serverless Streamlit App Deployment with Terraform
Graphic created by Kevon Mayers. Introduction As customers increasingly seek to harness the power of generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning to deliver cutting-edge applications, the need for a flexible, intuitive, and scalable development platform has never been greater. In this landscape, Streamlit has emerged as a standout tool, making it easy for developers to […]
Exploring Telemetry Events in Amazon Q Developer
As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Q Developer, understanding how developers use it is essential. Diving into specific telemetry events and user-level data clarifies how users interact with Amazon Q Developer, offering insights into feature usage and developer behaviors. This granular view, accessible through logs, is vital for identifying trends, optimizing performance, and enhancing the overall […]
Securing Your Software Supply Chain with Amazon CodeCatalyst and Amazon Inspector
Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified service that streamlines the entire software development lifecycle, empowering teams to build, deliver, and scale applications on AWS. DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security into all stages of software development. Rather than prioritizing features, it injects security into an earlier phase of the development process – baking it into […]
Amazon ECS Multi-region Deployment with Amazon CodeCatalyst
Many AWS customers run their mission-critical workloads across multiple AWS regions to serve geographically dispersed customer base, meet disaster recovery objectives or address local laws and regulations. Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service designed to streamline and accelerate the process of building and delivering applications on AWS. It is an all-in-one platform for […]
Amazon Q Developer Code Challenge
Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. With Amazon Q Developer in your IDE, you can write a comment in natural language that […]