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The AWS re:Invent 2016 conference was packed with some exciting announcements and sessions around DevOps and Continuous Delivery. We launched AWS CodeBuild, a fully managed build service that eliminates the need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. You now have the ability to run your continuous integration and continuous delivery process entirely […]

IT Governance in a Dynamic DevOps Environment Governance involves the alignment of security and operations with productivity to ensure a company achieves its business goals. Customers who are migrating to the cloud might be in various stages of implementing governance. Each stage poses its own challenges. In this blog post, the first in a series, […]

AWS re:Invent 2016 is right around the corner. Here’s an overview of where you can meet the AWS OpsWorks team and learn about the service. DEV305 – Configuration Management in the Cloud 12/1/16 (Thursday) 11:00 AM – Venetian, Level 3, Murano 3205 To ensure that your application operates in a predictable manner in both your […]

Change is the inherent nature of the Cloud. New ideas can immediately take shape through the provisioning of resources, projects will iterate and evolve, and sometimes we must go back to the drawing board. Amazon Web Services accelerates this process by providing the ability to programmatically provision and de-provision resources. However, this freedom requires some […]

Over the past few months, the AWS OpsWorks team has introduced several enhancements to existing features and added to support for new one. Let’s discuss some of these new capabilities. ·       Chef client 12.13.37 – Released a new AWS OpsWorks agent version for Chef 12 for Linux, enabling the latest enhancements from Chef. The OpsWorks […]

This is a guest blog post by Felix Candelario & Benjamin F., AWS Solutions Architects. This blog post will focus on architectures you can unlock with the recently launched Application Load Balancer and compare them with the implementations that use what we now refer to as the Classic Load Balancer. An Application Load Balancer operates at […]

AWS OpsWorks, a service that helps you configure and operate applications of all shapes and sizes using Chef automation, has just added support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region and launched public endpoints in Frankfurt, Ireland, N. California, Oregon, Sao Paolo, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Previously, customers had to manage OpsWorks stacks for these regions using […]

This post will show you how to integrate Auto Scaling groups with AWS OpsWorks so you can leverage  the native scaling capabilities of Amazon EC2 and the OpsWorks Chef configuration management solution. Auto Scaling ensures you have the correct number of EC2 instances available to handle your application load.  You create collections of EC2 instances […]

AWS OpsWorks provides options for organizing your Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS resources. There are stacks to group related resources and isolate them from each other; layers to group instances with similar roles; and apps to organize software deployments. Each has a name to help you keep track of them. Because it can be […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk customers frequently ask how to load test their web applications running on Elastic Beanstalk. Load testing, which allows you to demonstrate and understand how the application and the underlying resources function under real-world demands, is an important part of the application development cycle. Creating tests that simulate real-world scenarios is essential. Locust, […]