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Introduction Is configuration drift preventing you from accessing the speed, safety, and governance benefits of AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure management? Configuration drift occurs when cloud resources are modified outside of CloudFormation, leading to a mismatch in the actual state and template definition of resources. Drift tends to accumulate from infrastructure changes that engineers make via […]

AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code. CloudFormation templates can be written directly in JSON or YAML, or they can be generated by tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Resources are created and managed by CloudFormation as units called Stacks. Additionally, change set enable you […]

Introduction Organizations operating at scale on AWS often need to manage resources across multiple accounts and regions. Whether it’s deploying security controls, compliance configurations, or shared services, maintaining consistency can be challenging. AWS CloudFormation StackSets (StackSets) has been helping organizations deploy resources across multiple accounts and regions since its launch. While the service is powerful […]

Introduction As organizations adopt multi-account strategies for improved security features and governance, AWS CloudFormation StackSets enables organizations to deploy infrastructure across multiple accounts and regions. However, monitoring and tracking these distributed deployments across multiple accounts presents operational challenges. When a critical security baseline deployed across 50 accounts suddenly starts failing, teams face the daunting task of logging […]

This post is cowritten by Danilo Tommasina and Lalit Kumar B from Thomson Reuters. Large organizations often struggle with infrastructure management challenges including compliance issues, development bottlenecks and errors from inconsistent AWS resource creation across teams. Without standardized naming, tagging and policy enforcement, teams face repeated boilerplate code and difficulty accessing centrally-managed resources. In this […]

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AWS CloudFormation StackSets enables organizations to deploy infrastructure consistently across multiple AWS accounts and regions. However, success depends on choosing the right deployment strategy that balances three critical factors: deployment speed, operational safety, and organizational scale. This guide explores proven StackSets deployment strategies specifically designed for multi-account infrastructure management. Understanding StackSets Deployment Fundamentals What are […]

This post is co-written with Rayco Martínez Hernández, Head of Cloud Governance at Moeve. Moeve, formerly known as Cepsa, is a global integrated energy company with over 90 years of experience and more than 11,000 employees. Moeve is committed to driving Europe’s energy transition and accelerating decarbonization efforts. The company has embraced digital transformation to […]

This is a guest post written by Ramanathan Nachiappan from GoDaddy. In the world of infrastructure as code, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) has revolutionized how teams define and provision cloud resources. Central to its operation is the bootstrapping process, which ensures all required resources and permissions are in place to enable secure […]

In modern software development, containerization with Docker has revolutionized how we build and deploy applications. While Docker enables packaging applications into portable containers, the continuous need to update these images can be resource intensive. AWS CodeBuild addresses this challenge by providing a managed build service that eliminates infrastructure maintenance overhead. In this blog post, we’ll […]