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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 […]

Introduction Organizations carry a growing burden of technical debt — aging codebases, outdated runtimes, and legacy frameworks that slow innovation, increase security risk, and inflate maintenance costs. Addressing this debt requires tackling a wide range of code transformation challenges: version upgrades, runtime migrations, framework transitions, and language translations, all of which must be repeated across […]

Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have long been a go-to pattern for shipping zero-downtime deployments. Historically, the recommended approach in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) was to wire ECS to AWS CodeDeploy for traffic shifting, lifecycle hooks, and tight integration with AWS CodePipeline. In July 2025, Amazon ECS launched […]

Root cause analysis during incidents is one of the most time-consuming and stressful parts of operating cloud applications. Engineers must quickly correlate telemetry data across multiple services, review deployment history, and understand complex application dependencies—all while under pressure to restore service. AWS DevOps Agent changes this paradigm by bringing autonomous investigation capabilities to your operations […]

At re:Invent 2025, Matt Garman announced AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, continuously improving reliability and performance. As a member of the DevOps Agent team, we’ve focused heavily on making sure that the “incident response” capability of the DevOps Agent generates useful findings and observations. In particular, we’ve been […]

The AWS SDK for Java v2 represents a fundamental shift in how Java applications interact with AWS services, addressing critical security requirements while delivering measurable performance improvements. For organizations still operating on v1, this transition extends beyond a routine version upgrade—it’s a strategic imperative for maintaining secure, efficient cloud operations. With v1 reaching end-of-support on December 31, 2025, […]

This post was contributed by Adi Ziv, Senior Platform Engineer at Kaltura, with collaboration from AWS. Kaltura, a leading AI video expirience cloud and corporate communications technology provider, transformed CI/CD infrastructure by migrating to AWS CodeBuild-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. This migration reduced DevOps operational overhead by 90%, accelerated build queue times by 66%, and […]

This post was co-written with Muthuvelan Swaminathan (Principal Partner Engineer) and Ruchika Bakolia (Software Engineer) from New Relic. Modern distributed systems that generate massive volumes of metrics, traces, and logs are inherently complex. The process of correlating logs, comparing configurations and switching between tools during incident management makes manual root cause analysis a bottleneck that […]

This post was co-written with Omri Sass (Director of Product Management), Cansu Berkem (Director of Product Management), and Mohammad Jama (Product Marketing Manager) from Datadog. On-call engineers spend hours manually investigating incidents across multiple observability tools, logs, and monitoring systems. This process delays incident resolution and impacts business operations, especially when teams need to correlate […]

The AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC) methodology marks a significant change in software development by strategically assigning routine tasks to AI while maintaining human oversight for critical decisions. Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI coding assistant, supports the entire software development lifecycle and offers the Project Rules feature, allowing users to tailor their development practices […]