AWS DevOps Blog

Since its introduction in 2018, AWS CDK has gained significant traction among developers for building Infrastructure as Code solutions. As technology advances and new features emerge, it is inevitable that older versions of tools must reach their end-of-support. As of June 1, 2023, AWS CDK v1 has officially reached its end-of-support. Consequently, AWS will no […]

Businesses differentiate themselves by delivering new capabilities to their customers faster. They must leverage automation to accelerate their software development by optimizing code quality, improving performance, and ensuring their software meets security/compliance requirements. Trained on billions of lines of Amazon and open-source code, Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion that helps developers write code […]

We are excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Java 2.x now offers the Enhanced Document API for DynamoDB, providing an enhanced way of working with Amazon DynamoDb items. This post covers using the Enhanced Document API for DynamoDB with the DynamoDB Enhanced Client. By using the Enhanced Document API, you can create an […]

In this blog, we will walk through how Cirrusgo used Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to quickly identify and resolve their operational issue related to database performance and reduce the impact on their business. This capability is offered by Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS which uses machine learning algorithms to help organizations identify and resolve […]

The AWS SDK for Java team is pleased to announce the general availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) URI parsing in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. You can now parse path-style and virtual-hosted-style S3 URIs to easily retrieve the bucket, key, region, style, and query parameters. The new parseUri() API and S3Uri […]

AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that allows you to model your cloud resources in template files that can be authored or generated in a variety of languages. You can manage stacks that deploy those resources via the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the API. CloudFormation […]

Many customers use Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to monitor applications and often ask how they can integrate Amazon DevOps Guru Insights in order to have a unified dashboard for monitoring.  This blog post showcases integrating DevOps Guru proactive and reactive insights to a CloudWatch dashboard by using Custom Widgets. It can help you to correlate trends […]

DevSecOps refers to a set of best practices that integrate security controls into the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflow. One of the first controls is Static Application Security Testing (SAST). SAST tools run on every code change and search for potential security vulnerabilities before the code is executed for the first time. Catching security […]

Amazon CodeWhisperer is a powerful generative AI tool that gives me coding superpowers. Ever since I have incorporated CodeWhisperer into my workflow, I have become faster, smarter, and even more delighted when building applications. However, learning to use any generative AI tool effectively requires a beginner’s mindset and a willingness to embrace new ways of […]

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. In this blog post, we will explore the process of creating a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a .NET AWS Lambda function using the CDK Pipelines. We […]