AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog

Category: Public Sector

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 […]

Announcing Generative AI CDK Constructs

Announced by Werner Vogels in his 2023 re:Invent Keynote, Generative AI CDK Constructs, an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), provides well-architected multi-service patterns to quickly and efficiently create repeatable infrastructure required for generative AI projects on AWS. Our initial release includes five CDK constructs enabling key generative AI capabilities like […]

Containers devsecops pipeline architecture

Building an end-to-end Kubernetes-based DevSecOps software factory on AWS

DevSecOps software factory implementation can significantly vary depending on the application, infrastructure, architecture, and the services and tools used. In a previous post, I provided an end-to-end DevSecOps pipeline for a three-tier web application deployed with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The pipeline used cloud-native services along with a few open-source security tools. This solution is similar, […]

Dynamic multi-account pipeline solution architecture

How SOMA Global deploys their application with a dynamic multi-account pipeline

In April 2020, SOMA Global, a leading provider of Public Safety as a Service (PSAAS™), set out to update its computer aided design (CAD) platform to increase reliability to 99.999%, an industry first. SOMA Global adopted an account-based approach for tenant isolation to meet Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) regulations. The development and operations team […]

Building end-to-end AWS DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline with open source SCA, SAST and DAST tools

DevOps is a combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that combine software development with information technology operations. These combined practices enable companies to deliver new application features and improved services to customers at a higher velocity. DevSecOps takes this a step further, integrating security into DevOps. With DevSecOps, you can deliver secure and compliant […]