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Tag: Developer Tools

Debug deployment failures faster with the Deployments tab in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Introduction When a deployment fails, finding the root cause often means piecing together information from multiple sources. You wait for the deployment to finish, request a log bundle, download it, and then search through files like eb-engine.log and cfn-init.log to find the error. If you’re not familiar with Elastic Beanstalk’s log file structure, you might […]

Modernizing Excel VBA to Python at Scale with AWS Transform custom

Learn how AWS Transform custom can help migrate Excel VBA applications to modern Python code while overcoming context window limitations, preserving functional equivalence, and enabling cloud-native deployment—turning weeks of manual rewriting into hours of AI-guided transformation. Introduction Many organizations maintain dozens of Excel VBA applications built over decades, containing business-critical logic trapped in workbooks—budget planning […]

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Introduction AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies the process of deploying and scaling web applications. You upload your code, and Elastic Beanstalk handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling, and application health monitoring. Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI Analysis to help troubleshoot environment health issues. When you request an analysis, Elastic Beanstalk triggers a script on the […]

Building a scalable code modernization solution with AWS Transform custom

Introduction Software maintenance and modernization is a critical challenge for enterprises managing hundreds or thousands of repositories. Whether upgrading Java versions, migrating to new AWS SDKs, or modernizing frameworks, the scale of transformation work can be overwhelming. AWS Transform custom uses agentic AI to perform large-scale modernization of software, code, libraries, and frameworks to reduce […]

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt

In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, maintaining and modernizing Java applications is a critical challenge for many organizations. As new Java versions are released and best practices evolve, the need for efficient code transformation becomes increasingly important. Organizations today face significant challenges when modernizing their Java applications. Legacy codebases often contain outdated patterns, deprecated APIs, […]

Automating AWS SDK for Java v1 to v2 Upgrades with AWS Transform

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, […]

Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance

Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance

Streamline your AWS infrastructure development with AI-powered documentation search, validation, and troubleshooting Introduction Today, we’re excited to introduce the AWS Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) MCP Server, a new tool that bridges the gap between AI assistants and your AWS infrastructure development workflow. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server enables AI assistants like Kiro CLI, […]

The Future of AWS CodeCommit

Back in July 2024, we announced plans to de-emphasize AWS CodeCommit based on adoption patterns and our assessment of customer needs. We never stopped looking at the data or listening to you, and what you’ve shown us is clear: you need an AWS-managed solution for your code repositories. Based on this feedback, CodeCommit is returning […]

Your Guide to the Developer Tools Track at AWS re:Invent 2025

AWS re:Invent 2025 is just around the corner, and if you’re a developer looking to level up your skills, the Developer Tool (DVT) track has an incredible lineup waiting for you. From CI/CD pipelines and full-stack development to Infrastructure as Code and AI-powered coding agents, this year’s sessions will help you build faster, smarter, and […]

Announcing CloudFormation IDE Experience: End-to-End Development in Your IDE

If you’ve developed AWS CloudFormation templates, you know the drill; write YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) in your IDE (Integrated Development Environment), switch to the AWS Management Console to validate, jump to documentation to verify property names. Then run CFN Lint (CloudFormation Linter) in your terminal, deploy and wait, then troubleshoot failures back in the […]