Infrastructure & Automation
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8 best practices when automating your deployments with AWS CloudFormation
Learn how to save time, effort, and frustration when automating your workload deployments using AWS CloudFormation.
Read MoreBuilding a Microsoft test environment using nested Quick Starts
See how you can automate the deployment of a full-stack Microsoft development or testing environment by using a combination of the VPC, Active Directory, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange Server, and RD Gateway Quick Starts.
Read MoreUsing AWS CloudFormation to deploy software into Amazon EKS clusters
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.
Read MoreBest practices for deploying EC2 instances with AWS CloudFormation
Best practices for addressing security and access control and configuration when bootstrapping EC2 instances in the Amazon Web Services Cloud.
Read MoreSecuring your bastion hosts with Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
In this second post of a two-part series, learn how to enhance the security of your bastion hosts by using Amazon EC2 Instance Connect. With EC2 Instance Connect, you no longer have to associate a key pair to the instance, and you don’t need to permanently add user keys to authorized keys.
Read MoreUsing a long-lived compute resource as a custom resource in AWS CloudFormation
Learn how to extend AWS CloudFormation by using AWS CodeBuild as a long-lived compute environment. This example is based on the AWX Quick Start.
Read MoreToward a bastion-less world
Looking for a way to improve your security posture by eliminating open ports on your private Amazon EC2 instances? Learn how you can use the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to securely connect to your instances without requiring open ports or a key pair.
Read MoreAutomating Amazon CloudWatch alarms with an AWS CloudFormation macro
Tired of writing out each Amazon CloudWatch alarm within your AWS CloudFormation template? Learn how to append alarms automatically by using a CloudFormation macro.
Read MoreData analysis with SnapLogic
This post is a hands-on companion to the Data Lake with SnapLogic on AWS Quick Start. See how to use a SnapLogic pipeline to transform your input data, load it into an Amazon Redshift data warehouse, query the data in Amazon Redshift, and visualize it with Amazon QuickSight, so that you can analyze the data.
Read MoreA tale from the trenches: The CloudBees Core on AWS Quick Start
David B. Schott, Senior Business Development Engineer at CloudBees, Inc., details his technology adventures building, with a tight deadline and a learning curve, a Quick Start for the CloudBees Core CI/CD product.
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