AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog

AWS partners often have a requirement to create resources, such as cross-account roles, in their customers’ accounts. A good choice for consistently provisioning these resources is AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that allows you to specify your architecture in a template file written in JSON or YAML. CloudFormation also makes it easy […]

“All code will become legacy”. This saying, widely recognized amongst software developers, highlights the reality of their day-to-day activities. While writing new code is an integral part of a developer’s role, a significant portion of their time is dedicated to refactoring and maintaining existing codebases. Developers typically encounter numerous challenges when attempting to understand and […]

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde In the real world as in the world of technology and authentication, the ability to understand who we are is important on many levels. In this blog post, we’ll look at how the ability to uniquely identify ourselves in the AWS console can lead to a […]

Did you know that HAQM Q Developer, a new type of Generative AI-powered (GenAI) assistant, can help developers and DevOps engineers accelerate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)? IaC is a practice where infrastructure components such as servers, networks, and cloud resources are defined and managed using code. Instead […]

To help them be more productive, developers all over the world are turning to generative AI-powered assistants like HAQM Q Developer, the most capable assistant for accelerating software development. While HAQM Q Developer is great at providing code suggestions, writing new code is one of many things developers have to do on a day-to-day basis. […]

This post demonstrates how HAQM Q Developer, a generative AI-powered assistant for software development, helps create Terraform templates. Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that provisions and manages infrastructure on AWS safely and predictably. When used in an integrated development environment (IDE), HAQM Q Developer assists with software development, including code generation, explanation, […]

Development teams adopt DevOps practices to increase the speed and quality of their software delivery. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics provide a popular method to measure progress towards that outcome. Using four key metrics, senior leaders can assess the current state of team maturity and address areas of optimization. This blog post shows […]

Testing code is a fundamental step in the field of software development. It ensures that applications are reliable, meet quality standards, and work as intended. Automated software tests help to detect issues and defects early, reducing impact to end-user experience and business. In addition, tests provide documentation and prevent regression as code changes over time. […]

Introduction Many organizations with workloads hosted on AWS leverage the advantage of AWS services like AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeDeploy, and other AWS developer tools while integrating with their existing development workflows. These customers seek to maintain their preferred version control systems, such as GitHub, and continue using their established continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) […]

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to AWS CodeCommit, effective July 25, 2024. AWS CodeCommit existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance improvements for AWS CodeCommit, but we do not plan to introduce new features. Customers […]