AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to AWS Cloud9, effective July 25, 2024. AWS Cloud9 existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance improvements for AWS Cloud9, but we do not plan to introduce new features. Building […]

In this post, we guide you through five common components of efficient code debugging. We also show you how HAQM Q Developer can significantly reduce the time and effort required to manually identify and fix errors across numerous lines of code. With HAQM Q Developer on your side, you can focus on other aspects of […]

Today, HAQM Web Services (AWS) announced the release of workspace context awareness in HAQM Q Developer chat. By including @workspace in your prompt, HAQM Q Developer will automatically ingest and index all code files, configurations, and project structure, giving the chat comprehensive context across your entire application within the integrated development environment (IDE). Throughout the […]

The traditional way customers had to interact with AWS account resources was through the AWS Management Console, SDKs, or command line interface (CLI) calls. However, these methods do not provide a quick way to gather information about AWS resources without writing scripts or navigating thought the AWS Management Console. The ability to use natural language […]

Refactor serverless apps by swapping application code with cloud automation: reduce costs, decouple logic from architecture, and leverage managed services’ native capabilities.

Many organizations have critical legacy Java applications that are increasingly difficult to maintain. Modernizing these applications is a necessary, daunting, and risky task that takes the focus off of creating new value or features. This includes undocumented code, outdated frameworks and libraries, security vulnerabilities, a lack of logging and error handling, and a lack of […]

Note: Customers no longer need to manage their own GitHub runners, you can now use AWS CodeBuild for managed GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, which provides ephemeral and scalable runner environment with strong security boundaries and low start up latency. With AWS CodeBuild, you don’t need to maintain your own infrastructure or build scaling logic, as […]

In this blog post you’ll learn how to use a new feature in AWS CodeDeploy to deploy your application one Availability Zone (AZ) at a time to help increase the operational resilience or your services through improved fault isolation. Introducing change to a system can be a time of risk. Even the most advanced CI/CD […]

Unlock the full potential of AWS CloudFormation development with HAQM Q. Generate templates, understand resources, explain code, troubleshoot issues, and query documentation seamlessly.

Introduction Many customers use HAQM Elastic Container Service (ECS) for running their mission critical container-based applications on AWS. These customers are looking for safe deployment of application and infrastructure changes with minimal downtime, leveraging AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation natively supports performing Blue/Green deployments on ECS using a CodeDeploy Blue/Green hook, but this […]