Integration & Automation

Deploy your Quick Starts and other AWS CloudFormation templates securely at the click of a button by using the AWS IoT Button.

AWS CloudFormation nested stacks execute in the same account and AWS Region as the parent stack. This post shows you how to nest stacks in different accounts, Regions, or IAM identities.

Instead of manually cleaning up your temporary AWS CloudFormation stacks, use this mechanism to automatically delete your demonstration stacks after a specified amount of time has elapsed.

AWS Lambda requires its source code to be hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as the Lambda function, which poses challenges when writing AWS CloudFormation templates that are portable across different regions. This post discusses three patterns to address that at stack.

The content of this post has been removed. For the most recent information, see the TaskCat documentation (https://aws-quickstart.github.io/taskcat/).

Circular dependencies can be frustrating to resolve. In this post we will talk about what leads to circular dependencies, a few examples of circular dependencies and approaches to solve them.

Introducing the Quick Start Team and our blog: Why we decided to have a blog dedicated to infrastructure and automation, and the type of content we intend to cover.