Category: Management & Governance

Introduction This post demonstrates how to leverage AWS CloudFormation Lambda Hooks to enforce compliance rules at provisioning time, enabling you to evaluate and validate Lambda function configurations against custom policies before deployment. Often these policies impact the way a software should be built, restricting language versions and runtimes. A great example is applying those policies […]

Increasing developer productivity has been a persistent challenge for senior leaders over the past decades. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), a new wave of innovation is transforming how software teams work. Generative AI tools like HAQM Q Developer are emerging as game-changers, supporting developers across the entire software development lifecycle. But how […]

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) enables customers to deploy a flexible, configuration-driven solution to establish a landing zone while also leveraging AWS Control Tower. At AWS Professional Services, we’ve helped customers deploy and configure LZA hundreds of times. A common request we encounter is integrating LZA configuration into customers’ existing GitOps workflows. GitOps has […]

The management of configurations across multiple environments and tenants poses a significant challenge in modern software development. Organizations must balance maintaining distinct settings for various environments while accommodating the unique needs of different tenants in multi-tenant architectures. This complexity is compounded by requirements for consistency, version control, security, and efficient troubleshooting. AWS AppConfig offers a […]

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 […]

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 […]

As organizations increasingly adopt HAQM Q Developer, understanding how developers use it is essential. Diving into specific telemetry events and user-level data clarifies how users interact with HAQM Q Developer, offering insights into feature usage and developer behaviors. This granular view, accessible through logs, is vital for identifying trends, optimizing performance, and enhancing the overall […]

Maximizing the value from Enterprise Software tools requires an understanding of who and how users interact with those tools. As we have worked with builders rolling out HAQM CodeWhisperer to their enterprises, identifying usage patterns has been critical. This blog post is a result of that work, builds on Introducing HAQM CodeWhisperer Dashboard blog and […]

In this blog post, we will show you how to validate Terraform modules and how to automate the process using a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

This post demonstrates using AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy CloudFormation Hooks from a centralized delegated administrator account to all accounts within an Organization Unit(OU). It provides step-by-step guidance to deploy controls at scale to your AWS Organization as Hooks using StackSets. By following this post, you will learn how to deploy a hook to hundreds […]