Category: Integration & Automation

In this post, we detail the concepts, processes, and steps to get started with policy as code (PaC) and adopt this into your software development lifecycle. PaC can improve your overall security posture, improve consistency of service usage across your organization, and reduce rework or workloads deployed to your AWS accounts.

As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage their containerized applications, implementing robust security measures and maintaining compliance become critical. The scalable and flexible nature of Amazon EKS has made it a popular choice for businesses seeking to streamline their application deployment and management processes. However, with this adoption comes the […]

Learn a simpler, faster method for updating your Lambda code that doesn’t require manual updates to Amazon S3. We provide a fully configured AWS CloudFormation template with Lambda code on AWS CodeCommit.

Learn how to create a more secure LAMP stack with AWS WAF, Route 53 domain, and AWS Certificate Manager. This post walks you through automation steps to deploy a highly available LAMP-stack application with a web application firewall.

Learn how to reduce log-storage costs by automating retention settings in Amazon CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch Logs stores log data indefinitely, which is helpful. But as AWS workload logging grows, so do your log-storage costs. To reduce costs, establish a log-retention policy and apply it across all your log groups, ideally automatically.

Simulate recovering an Amazon Aurora global database after a disaster. Walk through three failover scenarios, observe their effect on Terraform state, and learn how to maintain the global database topology and configuration using Terraform.

Learn how to use an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. The solution is based on a tagging strategy combined with AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for EC2 instances that are tagged appropriately.

Learn how to automate the deployment and management of an Amazon Aurora global database—across multiple AWS Regions—with Terraform. This architecture can provide disaster recovery from Region-wide outages with low recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO).

Learn how to create a service virtualization using AWS CloudFormation and Amazon API Gateway to test an application that uses an external API that’s not always available.

Install and configure TaskCat on Windows 10 with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) and test an AWS CloudFormation template.