AWS DevOps

AWS CloudFormation is a service that allows you to define, manage, and provision your AWS cloud infrastructure using code. To enhance this process and ensure your infrastructure meets your organization’s standards, AWS offers CloudFormation Hooks. These Hooks are extension points that allow you to invoke custom logic at specific points during CloudFormation stack operations, enabling

In today’s cloud-driven world, maintaining compliance and enforcing organizational policies across your infrastructure is more critical than ever. AWS CloudFormation, a service that enables you to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), has been a cornerstone for automating cloud deployments. While CloudFormation simplifies resource management, ensuring compliance with

Recently, Amazon Q Developer announced expanded support for account resource awareness with Amazon Q in the AWS Management Console along with the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in AWS Chatbot, enabling you to ask questions from Microsoft Teams or Slack. Additionally, Amazon Q will now provide context-aware assistance for your questions about resources in your account

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch and general availability of Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz in the AWS Management Console. When chatting with Amazon Q in the console, customers can access a subset of information from Datadog and Wiz services using natural language. Ask questions like @datadog do I have

AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code. CloudFormation templates can be written directly in JSON or YAML, or they can be generated by tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). These templates are submitted to the CloudFormation service and the resources are deployed together as stacks,

Introduction Software development is complex and time consuming. Developers frequently need to stop building to get answers to hard, technical questions. What is the error in my code? How do I debug the logic? Where do I go to find this information? In 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 53% of respondents agreed that waiting on

Recently, we launched a new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 construct for Amazon CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC). This construct simplifies the configuration and maintenance of securing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) CloudFront origins with CDK. Launched in 2022, OAC is the recommended way to secure your CloudFront distributions due to additional security features compared

Any organization that manages software libraries and applications needs a standardized way to catalog, reference, import, fix bugs and update the versions of those libraries and applications. Semantic Versioning enables developers, testers, and project managers to have a more standardized process for committing code and managing different versions. It’s benefits also extend beyond development teams

The release of Amazon Q Developer and its ability to be integrated into AWS Chatbot allows users who use Microsoft Teams or Slack to stay within their communication platform and interact with a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) AWS expert. Amazon Q Developer is a conversational generative AI chatbot that provides AWS assistance in the form of

We will be highlighting Projen’s powerful features that cater to various aspects of project management and development. We’ll examine how Projen enhances polyglot programming within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit constructs. We’ll also touch on its built-in support for common development tools and practices. In our previous blog, we introduced you to the

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for inline chat. Inline chat combines the benefits of in-IDE chat with the ability to directly update code, allowing developers to describe issues or ideas directly in the code editor, and receive AI-generated responses that are seamlessly integrated into their codebase. In this post, I will introduce the

AWS Lambda recently announced a new code editor based on Code-OSS. Like the previous version, the new editor includes Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development that can help you build and debug Lambda functions more quickly. In this post, I provide an overview of Amazon Q Developer’s

It’s an established practice for development teams to build deployment pipelines, with services such as AWS CodePipeline, to increase the quality of application and infrastructure releases through reliable, repeatable and consistent automation. Automating the deployment process helps build quality into our products by introducing continuous integration to build and test code, however enterprises may sometimes

For several years, AWS Solutions Constructs have helped thousands of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) users accelerate their creation of well-architected workloads by providing small, composable patterns linking two or more AWS services, such as an Amazon S3 bucket triggering an AWS Lambda function. Over this time, customers with use cases that don’t match an

Practical improvement and optimization of software quality requires expert-level knowledge across various subjects. As such, in this blog we shall look at how Amazon Q Developer can help improve your development team productivity and application stability by enabling automation around code optimization by improving your code’s quality, performance, application infrastructure specifications. The blog will also look

A primary objective of software developers is to develop products that uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security, fostering trust and confidence among their users and customers. Developers seek to secure their software by identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in their codebase, thereby enhancing its resilience against cyber threats. Amazon Q Developer, a

Graphic created by Kevon Mayers. Introduction As customers increasingly seek to harness the power of generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning to deliver cutting-edge applications, the need for a flexible, intuitive, and scalable development platform has never been greater. In this landscape, Streamlit has emerged as a standout tool, making it easy for developers to

Generative AI is leading to many new features and capabilities. As a result, your employees may not know about all the new tools you are deploying. I was recently working with a customer that had deployed Amazon Q Developer for all their software developers. However, many developers didn’t know they had access to the productivity

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the AWS Cloud Control provider for Pulumi, an modern infrastructure management platform, which allows our customers to adopt AWS innovations faster than ever before. AWS has consistently expanded its range of services to support any cloud workload, supporting over 200 fully featured services and introducing more

In this blog, we will explore how Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation accelerates Java application upgrades. We will examine the benefits of this Generative AI-powered agent and outline strategies to achieve maximal acceleration, drawing from real-world success stories and best practices. Benefits of using Amazon Q Developer to upgrade your applications Amazon Q