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Tag: Amazon DynamoDB
Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline
Introduction Today customers want to reduce manual operations for deploying and maintaining their infrastructure. The recommended method to deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS is to follow Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) model using tools like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or Terraform. One of the critical components in terraform is managing the state file which […]
A new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables
Recently, we launched a new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables, known as TableV2. This construct provides a number of new features in addition to what the original construct offered, enabling CDK authors to create global tables, simplifying the configuration of global secondary indexes and auto scaling, as well as supporting […]
Implementing automatic drift detection in CDK Pipelines using Amazon EventBridge
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a popular open source toolkit that allows developers to create their cloud infrastructure using high level programming languages. AWS CDK comes bundled with a construct called CDK Pipelines that makes it easy to set up continuous integration, delivery, and deployment with AWS CodePipeline. The CDK Pipelines construct […]
Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services
When building serverless event-driven applications using AWS Lambda, it is best practice to validate individual components. Unit testing can quickly identify and isolate issues in AWS Lambda function code. The techniques outlined in this blog demonstrates unit test techniques for Python-based AWS Lambda functions and interactions with AWS Services. The full code for this blog […]
Build real-time feature toggles with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs
Feature toggles (or feature flags) are a software development technique allowing developers to programmatically enable or disable features of an application. In practice, feature toggles control a system’s behavior by controlling conditional statements in the application code. Feature toggles have a number of use cases: Selectively enable or disable features – You can use feature […]
Rapid and flexible Infrastructure as Code using the AWS CDK with AWS Solutions Constructs
AWS Solutions Constructs provide a library of common service patterns built on top of the AWS CDK. These multi-service patterns allow you to deploy multiple resources with a single object, resources that follow best practices by default – both independently and throughout their interaction.