AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog

Introduction Development velocity has reached new heights with AI-driven development tools and practices. Organizations are generating code faster than ever before. But that speed carries risk. Researchers Anderson, Parker, and Tan warned in MIT Sloan Management Review, “Legacy systems tend to carry hidden debt; layering AI-generated code on top of them creates additional tangled dependencies.” […]

This post was co-written with Michael Stephan, Senior Principal Product Manager, and Christian Kreuzberger, Principal Software Engineer, at Dynatrace. AI-driven software delivery changes how code gets written, but not what production demands of it. A generated change still has to fit the traffic your service receives, the dependencies it calls, and the capacity limits it […]

AWS environments that have grown organically over time often share a common characteristic: infrastructure provisioned through the AWS Management Console, SDKs, or CLI without corresponding Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates. This practice is commonly referred to as “ClickOps,” a term describing any infrastructure change made outside of a codified, version-controlled workflow. Whether changes happen through […]

Introduction When CI/CD deployment failures occur for GitHub hosted applications,  AWS DevOps Agent reduces the hours that Development and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams typically spend manually investigating across multiple AWS services, logs, and pipeline stages. This process delays critical deployments and impacts software delivery velocity. This is especially true when teams need to correlate data between GitHub commit histories, AWS CodePipeline execution logs, and Amazon […]

Automating migration pipelines shifts valuable resources toward innovation. In this post, we will help you learn how to extend AWS Transform custom with Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrations that connect project management, automated testing, and source control. You will discover how turning a code transformation tool into an automated migration pipeline can take you […]

Introduction Large-scale machine learning workloads: training, fine-tuning, and inference run on clusters of hundreds to thousands of GPU instances for days or weeks at a stretch. Keeping operational visibility across a fleet of this size is a constant challenge: hardware health events, node lifecycle transitions, capacity fluctuations, and workload-level issues appear in the event stream around […]

“A pull request comes back with a single comment: “This doesn’t follow our circuit breaker pattern. Check the Architectural Decision Record .”  You know the architecture decision record exists somewhere. You open your team’s wiki, search “circuit breaker,” scroll past six irrelevant results, find the document, read through it, switch back to your editor, and fix the […]

This post is co-written with Govind Menon, Head of MCP Product at ServiceNow. Introduction Enterprise teams managing applications on AWS often rely on ServiceNow as their IT service management (ITSM) system for incident tracking, change management, and configuration management. When incidents occur, engineers must context-switch between AWS, third party observability tools and ServiceNow, manually correlating […]

Walk through a complete CloudFormation development cycle – authoring, validation, deployment, and troubleshooting – without leaving your AI assistant, using the AWS IaC MCP Server.

Introduction In a recent post, my colleague Micah Walter introduced AWS Transform – continuous modernization in public preview. Today, this capability is generally available in regions supported for AWS Transform . Development velocity continues to increase. But velocity without maintenance accumulates technical debt at speed. The faster software scales, the faster technical debt compounds. At […]