Category: Integration & Automation

In this second post of a two-part series, learn how to enhance the security of your bastion hosts by using HAQM EC2 Instance Connect. With EC2 Instance Connect, you no longer have to associate a key pair to the instance, and you don’t need to permanently add user keys to authorized keys.

Learn how to extend AWS CloudFormation by using AWS CodeBuild as a long-lived compute environment. This example is based on the AWX Quick Start.

Learn how to create robust AWS CloudFormation custom resources by using the custom resource helper (crhelper) and AWS Lambda.

Looking for a way to improve your security posture by eliminating open ports on your private HAQM EC2 instances? Learn how you can use the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to securely connect to your instances without requiring open ports or a key pair.

Tired of writing out each HAQM CloudWatch alarm within your AWS CloudFormation template? Learn how to append alarms automatically by using a CloudFormation macro.

See how you can securely generate, store, and retrieve passwords during automated workflows by using AWS Secrets Manager and AWS CloudFormation.

See best practices that you can apply in developing AWS Quick Starts to help gain broad customer reach and impact.

Here are two patterns that you can add to AWS CloudFormation to customize automated deployments based on values provided during the launch. The first pattern is for designing nested stacks that are optional. The second pattern allows you to change template URLs based on the current scenario.

This second post in a two-part series covers how you can streamline your automated deployments by orchestrating Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration within AWS Systems Manager Automation documents.

In this first post of a two-part series, read about the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager together to streamline deployment, and outputting logs to HAQM CloudWatch for centralized troubleshooting.