Integration & Automation
Automating 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.
Data 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.
A 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.
Securing passwords in AWS Quick Starts using AWS Secrets Manager
See how you can securely generate, store, and retrieve passwords during automated workflows by using AWS Secrets Manager and AWS CloudFormation.
A deep dive into testing with TaskCat
The content of this post has been removed. For the most recent information, see the TaskCat documentation (https://aws-quickstart.github.io/taskcat/).
AWS Quick Start best practices for broad customer impact
See best practices that you can apply in developing AWS Quick Starts to help gain broad customer reach and impact.
Conditionally launch AWS CloudFormation resources based on user input
Here are two patterns that you can add to AWS CloudFormation to customize automated deployments based on values provided during the launch. The first pattern is for designing nested stacks that are optional. The second pattern allows you to change template URLs based on the current scenario.
Using AWS Systems Manager to orchestrate PowerShell DSC
This second post in a two-part series covers how you can streamline your automated deployments by orchestrating Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration within AWS Systems Manager Automation documents.
Using AWS Systems Manager Automation and AWS CloudFormation together
In this first post of a two-part series, read about the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager together to streamline deployment, and outputting logs to Amazon CloudWatch for centralized troubleshooting.
Automated documentation of AWS CloudFormation template parameters
Automate the documentation of AWS CloudFormation templates by using a serverless solution that eliminates the need to run local scripts.