AWS DevOps Blog
Category: How-To
Run Umbraco CMS with Flexible Load Balancing on AWS
In version 7.3, Umbraco CMS the popular open source CMS introduced the flexible load balancing feature, which makes the setup of load-balanced applications a lot easier. In this blog post, we’ll follow the guidelines in the Umbraco documentation to set up a load-balanced Umbraco application on AWS. We’ll let AWS Elastic Beanstalk manage the deployments, […]
Introducing Git Credentials: A Simple Way to Connect to AWS CodeCommit Repositories Using a Static User Name and Password
Today, AWS is introducing a simplified way to authenticate to your AWS CodeCommit repositories over HTTPS. With Git credentials, you can generate a static user name and password in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) console that you can use to access AWS CodeCommit repositories from the command line, Git CLI, or any Git tool […]
Deploying a Spring Boot Application on AWS Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
In this blog post, I will show you how to deploy a sample Spring Boot application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and how to customize the Spring Boot configuration through the use of environment variables. Spring Boot is often described as a quick and easy way of building production-grade Spring Framework-based applications. To accomplish this, Spring […]
Building a Cross-Region/Cross-Account Code Deployment Solution on AWS
Many of our customers have expressed a desire to build an end-to-end release automation workflow solution that can deploy changes across multiple regions or different AWS accounts. In this post, I will show you how you can easily build an automated cross-region code deployment solution using AWS CodePipeline (a continuous delivery service), AWS CodeDeploy (an […]
From ELK Stack to EKK: Aggregating and Analyzing Apache Logs with Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Kinesis, and Kibana
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. By Pubali Sen, Shankar Ramachandran Log aggregation is critical to your operational infrastructure. A reliable, secure, and scalable log aggregation solution makes all the difference during a crunch-time debugging session. In this post, we explore an alternative to the popular log aggregation solution, the […]
Secure AWS CodeCommit with Multi-Factor Authentication
This blog post shows you how to set up AWS CodeCommit if you want to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your repository users. One of the most common reasons for using MFA for your AWS CodeCommit repository is to secure sensitive data or prevent accidental pushes to the repository that could trigger a sensitive change […]
Building a Microsoft BackOffice Server Solution on AWS with AWS CloudFormation
Last month, AWS released the AWS Enterprise Accelerator: Microsoft Servers on the AWS Cloud along with a deployment guide and CloudFormation template. This blog post will explain how to deploy complex Windows workloads and how AWS CloudFormation solves the problems related to server dependencies. This AWS Enterprise Accelerator solution deploys the four most requested Microsoft […]
How to Centrally Manage AWS Config Rules across Multiple AWS Accounts
AWS Config Rules allow you to codify policies and best practices for your organization and evaluate configuration changes to AWS resources against these policies. If you manage multiple AWS accounts, you might want to centrally govern and define these policies for all of the AWS accounts in your organization. With appropriate authorization, you can create […]
AWS CodeDeploy Deployments with HashiCorp Consul
Learn how to use AWS CodeDeploy and HashiCorp Consul together for your application deployments. AWS CodeDeploy automates code deployments to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and on-premises servers. HashiCorp Consul is an open-source tool providing service discovery and orchestration for modern applications. Learn how to get started by visiting the guest post on the AWS Partner Network Blog. You […]
Continue Rolling Back an Update for AWS CloudFormation stacks in the UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state
AWS CloudFormation allows developers and systems administrators to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources (called a stack) by provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable way. In this blog post, we will describe a new feature in AWS CloudFormation that will allow continue rolling back an update in a self-service […]