AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog

Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed AIOps service that uses machine learning (ML) to quickly identify when applications are behaving outside of their normal operating patterns and generates insights from its findings. These insights generated by DevOps Guru can be used to alert on-call teams to react to anomalies for business mission critical workloads. […]

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 […]

Pull Requests play a critical part in the software development process. They ensure that a developer’s proposed code changes are reviewed by relevant parties before code is merged into the main codebase. This is a standard procedure that is followed across the globe in different organisations today. However, pull requests often require code reviewers to […]

Today, accelerating application development while shifting security and assurance left in the development lifecycle is essential. One of the most critical components of application security is access control. While traditional access control mechanisms such as role-based access control (RBAC) and access control lists (ACLs) are still prevalent, policy-based access control (PBAC) is gaining momentum. PBAC […]

As organizations embrace cloud computing as part of “cloud first” strategy, and migrate to the cloud, some of the enterprises end up in a multicloud environment.  We see that enterprise customers get the best experience, performance and cost structure when they choose a primary cloud provider. However, for a variety of reasons, some organizations end […]

Introduction In my role I regularly have conversations with customers who want to enforce security and governance best practices while providing developers the flexibility and agility they need to innovate quickly. As you embrace DevSecOps, you likely seek to balance governance and agility in your Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery CI/CD pipeline. In this blog […]

Over the past decade, we’ve seen a rapid evolution in how IT operations teams and application developers work together. In the early days, there was a clear division of responsibilities between the two teams, with one team focused on providing and maintaining the servers and various components (i.e., storage, DNS, networking, etc.) for the application […]

Since its introduction in 2018, AWS CDK has gained significant traction among developers for building Infrastructure as Code solutions. As technology advances and new features emerge, it is inevitable that older versions of tools must reach their end-of-support. As of June 1, 2023, AWS CDK v1 has officially reached its end-of-support. Consequently, AWS will no […]

Businesses differentiate themselves by delivering new capabilities to their customers faster. They must leverage automation to accelerate their software development by optimizing code quality, improving performance, and ensuring their software meets security/compliance requirements. Trained on billions of lines of Amazon and open-source code, Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion that helps developers write code […]

We are excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Java 2.x now offers the Enhanced Document API for DynamoDB, providing an enhanced way of working with Amazon DynamoDb items. This post covers using the Enhanced Document API for DynamoDB with the DynamoDB Enhanced Client. By using the Enhanced Document API, you can create an […]