Category: Compute

Learn how to use an AWS Lambda function and custom AWS CloudFormation resources to manage your shared S3 Event Notifications.

Use a distributed Microsoft Active Directory to authenticate workloads on AWS.

Learn how to automate Ansible playbook deployment with Amazon EC2 and GitHub either by using an AWS CloudFormation template or by following a step-by-step setup.

Learn how to create an AWS CloudFormation template that runs code prior to terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance.

Learn how you can use AWS CloudFormation to model and deploy Kubernetes resource manifests or Helm charts into an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster.

Learn how to securely access Amazon S3 during bootstrapping by using S3-authenticated objects.

Best practices for addressing security and access control and configuration when bootstrapping EC2 instances in the Amazon Web Services Cloud.

In this quick recap, I feature five blog posts that show how you can use custom resources to extend AWS CloudFormation templates, from start to stack cleanup, when you’re building automated deployments.

Learn how to build an AMI from an Amazon EC2 instance at CloudFormation launch time, and then use the AMI for fast bootstrapping of the Auto Scaling group instances.

While Quick Start reference architectures eliminate code that customers would have to write themselves, technology partners actively contribute to improve the standards and feature sets. As an example, read about how Alfresco achieved key enhancements to the Amazon EKS Architecture Quick Start.