AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Steve Rice
Steve is the Principal Product Manager for AWS AppConfig. He is loves building products that improve people's lives, and is passionate about dynamic configuration and helping developers get their code to users as quickly and safely as possible.
Decision-making framework for configuration with AWS AppConfig
In this blog post, we show you how to separate configuration from code, explain the differences between dynamic and static configuration, and help you determine which values to use in your dynamic configuration. We also share processes to keep bloat down in your application configuration. Finally, we introduce you to AWS AppConfig, which allows you […]
Application configuration deployment to container workloads using AWS AppConfig
UPDATE (15 Dec 22): AWS AppConfig released an Agent for containers (EKS, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes) in December 2022, which makes calling AppConfig much simpler from containerized applications. We recommend using the AppConfig Agent for containers instead of the method below. Read the Agent documentation. AWS AppConfig is a capability of AWS Systems Manager that you […]
Deploying application configuration to serverless: Introducing the AWS AppConfig Lambda extension
At AWS, we feel strongly that separating application configuration from application code is a best practice. Being able to deploy configuration independently from code makes it possible to build services like Service Quotas and launch new services and features right as we announce them. If we didn’t separate these, even a simple configuration change would […]