Overview
Why AWS for DevOps?
Get Started Fast
Each AWS service is ready to use if you have an AWS account. There is no setup required or software to install.
Fully Managed Services
These services can help you take advantage of AWS resources quicker. You can worry less about setting up, installing, and operating infrastructure on your own. This lets you focus on your core product.
Built for Scale
You can manage a single instance or scale to thousands using AWS services. These services help you make the most of flexible compute resources by simplifying provisioning, configuration, and scaling.
Programmable
You have the option to use each service via the AWS Command Line Interface or through APIs and SDKs. You can also model and provision AWS resources and your entire AWS infrastructure using declarative AWS CloudFormation templates.
Why AWS for DevOps?
Automation
AWS helps you use automation so you can build faster and more efficiently. Using AWS services, you can automate manual tasks or processes such as deployments, development & test workflows, container management, and configuration management.
Secure
Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to set user permissions and policies. This gives you granular control over who can access your resources and how they access those resources.
Large Partner Ecosystem
AWS supports a large ecosystem of partners which integrate with and extend AWS services. Use your preferred third-party and open source tools with AWS to build an end-to-end solution. Visit here to learn more about our DevOps Partner Solutions.
Pay-As-You-Go
With AWS purchase services as you need them and only for the period when you plan to use them. AWS pricing has no upfront fees, termination penalties, or long term contracts. The AWS Free Tier helps you get started with AWS. Visit the pricing pages of each service to learn more.
DevOps Tooling by AWS
AWS provides services that help you practice DevOps at your company and that are built first for use with AWS. These tools automate manual tasks, help teams manage complex environments at scale, and keep engineers in control of the high velocity that is enabled by DevOps.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
The AWS Developer Tools help you securely store and version your application's source code and automatically build, test, and deploy your application to AWS or your on-premises environment.Start with AWS CodePipeline to build a continuous integration or continuous delivery workflow that uses AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and other tools, or use each service separately.
Software Release Workflows
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline is a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define. This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features and updates.
Build and Test Code
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue.
Deployment Automation
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy automates code deployments to any instance, including HAQM EC2 instances and on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
Instacart
Instacart uses AWS CodeDeploy to automate deployments for all of its front-end and back-end services. Using AWS CodeDeploy has enabled Instacart’s developers to focus on their product and worry less about deployment operations.
lululemon athletica
lululemon athletica uses a variety of AWS services to engineer a fully automated, continuous integration and delivery system. lululemon deploys artifacts distributed via HAQM S3 using AWS CodePipeline. From this stage, the artifacts are deployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Microservices
Build and deploy a microservices architecture using containers or serverless computing.
Production Docker Platform
HAQM Elastic Container Service
HAQM Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of HAQM EC2 instances.
Serverless Computing
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability.
Coursera
Coursera uses HAQM Elastic Container Service to manage a microservices -based architecture for its applications. Coursera can now deploy software changes in minutes instead of hours in a resource-isolated environment.
Localytics
Localytics uses AWS Lambda to create microservices that ingest HAQM Simple Storage Service files and Kinesis data streams comprising about 100 billion data points each month
Infrastructure as Code
Provision, configure, and manage your AWS infrastructure resources using code and templates. Monitor and enforce infrastructure compliance.
Templated Infrastructure Provisioning
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates.
Chef Configuration Management
AWS OpsWorks
AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that uses Chef, an automation platform that treats server configurations as code. OpsWorks uses Chef to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances or on-premises compute environments. OpsWorks has two offerings, AWS Opsworks for Chef Automate, and AWS OpsWorks Stacks.
Simple
Simple built its online banking platform on AWS. Using AWS CloudFormation, Simple can automate processes that once took months to complete and focus on its customer service rather than managing IT infrastructure.
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is Canada’s largest online news site. By using AWS OpsWorks, the Star reduced deployment time for its content management application from 3 hours to 20 minutes, saving costs and boosting productivity.
Configuration Management
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager is a management service that helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These capabilities help you define and track system configurations, prevent drift, and maintain software compliance of your EC2 and on-premises configurations.
Policy as Code
AWS Config
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. Config Rules enables you to create rules that automatically check the configuration of AWS resources recorded by AWS Config.
Prezi
Prezi uses AWS Config to track configuration changes to Prezi's AWS resources. AWS Config sends notifications whenever resources are created, modified, or deleted. Prezi uses AWS Config rules to govern provisioning and configuration of its resources in AWS.
Learn more
Provision infrastructure from AWS CloudFormation templates, invoke AWS Systems Manager to track your software inventory or to configure your instances, and auto-remediate any configuration drifts with AWS Config.
Monitoring and Logging
Record logs and monitor application and infrastructure performance in near real-time.
Cloud and Network Monitoring
HAQM CloudWatch
HAQM CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. You can use HAQM CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in your AWS resources.
Distributed Tracing
AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is Canada’s most read newspaper with a national weekly digital readership of 4.7 million. It used HAQM CloudWatch to monitor the performance of its system and adopted a DevOps approach for infrastructure automation.
Activity & API Usage Tracking
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service.
Application Availability
HAQM DevOps Guru
HAQM DevOps Guru is a service powered by machine learning (ML) that is designed to make it easy to improve an application’s operational performance and availability. DevOps Guru helps detect abnormal application behavior so you can identify operational issues long before they impact your customers.
Slack
Slack provides a messaging platform for unifying diverse communications services. Slack’s platform runs on AWS, leveraging a wide range of cloud services. The company uses AWS CloudTrail for monitoring logs related to HAQM EC2 instances.
Platform as a Service
Deploy web applications without needing to provision and manage the infrastructure and application stack.
Run and Manage Web Apps
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time.
Zillow
Zillow migrated its image-processing and delivery system to AWS to solve performance issues and gain scalability. It uses Elastic Beanstalk to run a Python Imaging Library with custom code for its image processing work.
Rachio
Rachio is the creator of the Smart Sprinkler Controller, a WiFi-based irrigation controller. Rachio uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage its website, apps, and APIs.
Version Control
Host secure, highly scalable Git repositories in the cloud.
Private Git Hosting
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.
Edmunds.com
Using AWS CodeCommit, Edmunds.com developers have a scalable, highly available source control service that reduces costs and simplifies administration.
