Tag: AWS CloudFormation

To manage access to the AWS Cloud, many companies prefer Enterprise Federation over AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users. Identity federation provides single sign-on (SSO) to access AWS accounts using credentials from the corporate directory. This method of accessing AWS allows companies to utilize their existing identity solutions, such as Active Directory (AD) or […]

The AWS Partner Network Blog has recently published a series describing a method to automate the creation of an IAM role for cross-account access, and how to collect the information needed for a partner to assume the role after creation. This post gives readers an overview of the series, summarizing each of the individual posts […]

This blog was updated on December, 6, 2023.  The updates included updating the AWS CloudFormation template to use Python 3.11 instead of Python 2.7.  Other minor changes were made to AWS Lambda, to accommodate Python version changes. “We want to get execution logs from our EC2 instances into S3,” my customer said. “Then we can […]

AWS CloudFormation provides the framework to define infrastructure-as-code in AWS and, until last year, this could only be written in JSON. However, in 2016, AWS added YAML 1.1 support for CloudFormation. Let’s take a look at some of the advantages of using YAML over JSON, as well as how to overcome some of the challenges […]

“I wonder what will happen if I touch these two wires together.” – Unix fortune If you’ve worked with cloud-hosted applications or large distributed architectures for any extended period of time, chances are you’ve heard colleagues invoke Murphy’s law: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. All of us have experienced one of those events in the […]

There are only five weeks left until re:Invent 2017. As in years past, AWS CloudFormation will be there, both behind the scenes deploying infrastructure and front-and-center for break-out sessions, workshops, and developer chats. Here are a few highlights we’ve pulled from the session catalog, followed by the full list of CloudFormation-focused sessions and workshops to […]

As one of the most widely-used services in AWS, CloudFormation continues to expand its feature set by including adding support for Amazon Athena, two new features to protect stacks and control rollback processes, plus several new coverage updates. CloudFormation now supports the creation of an Amazon Athena named query as a resource. Amazon Athena is a […]

AWS makes it easy for developers to get started developing applications in the cloud. With the extensive array of services available on AWS, developers might incorporate more than just a few components in their applications. Manually managing the resources needed for an application can become time consuming. In addition, applications usually require more than just […]

Managing your infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation provides a consistent way to rapidly deliver AWS environments for your applications. As your pace of delivery increases, it’s important to ensure you have the appropriate guardrails to protect your most critical infrastructure resources. AWS CloudFormation now includes two additional tools to help you ensure the consistent […]

As your use of Amazon Web Services evolves, you will probably outgrow your first account, and need to move into a multi-account model. There are plenty of benefits to using more than one AWS account: An administrative boundary: I can choose how permissive or restrictive my policies are based on the account type. Separating user […]