Amazon EC2 | Integration & Automation

Simplify integration of your Amazon EKS cluster with Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK

Learn how to use Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK to simplify integration of common tooling and provisioning of complete, opinionated EKS clusters that meet specific application requirements. This solution is designed to replace the deprecated Amazon EKS Quick Start.

Create AMIs with AWS CodePipeline

One way to alleviate the pain of drift in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads is to use a GitOps workflow to automate Amazon Machine Image (AMI) builds with AWS CodePipeline. In this post, we show you how to deploy a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, managed by CodePipeline, to build AMIs.

Reduce security risks from IaC drift in multi-Region AWS deployments with Terraform

Are your infrastructure as code (IaC) Terraform deployments on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud protected against drift? IaC drift, which can leave your data and resources exposed to security risks, is especially difficult to track down and remove in an environment that spans multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions. You can do it though, and in this post we show you how.

Collect custom metrics with Amazon CloudWatch strategic tagging

Learn how to use an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. The solution is based on a tagging strategy combined with AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for EC2 instances that are tagged appropriately.