Tag: Automate

Leveraging Business Applications for Better Workflow Management

October 9, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In the globalized world, about 34% of Business interruptions are caused by poor workflow management.  Workflow management ensures responsibilities and strategies work seamlessly, boosting productivity and assisting agencies with development.  But here’s the exciting element: today’s technology and innovative business apps are like magic tools…

How to import existing resources into AWS CDK Stacks

September 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Many customers have provisioned resources through the AWS Management Console or different Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and then started using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) in a later stage. After introducing AWS CDK into the architecture, you might want to import some…

Optimize software development with Amazon CodeWhisperer

May 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

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…

Extending CloudFormation and CDK with Third-Party Extensions

March 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Did you know you can use CloudFormation to manage third-party resources? The AWS CloudFormation Public Registry provides a searchable collection of CloudFormation extensions and makes it easy to discover and provision them in CloudFormation templates and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications. In the past three months, we’ve added…

Manually Approving Security Changes in CDK Pipeline

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this post I will show you how to add a manual approval to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Pipelines to confirm security changes before deployment. With this solution, when a developer commits a change, CDK pipeline identifies an IAM permissions change, pauses execution, and…

Automate Python Flask Deployment to the AWS Cloud

October 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

In our previous post, we demonstrated how to use open source tools to deploy an application to the AWS cloud. In this post, we expand on those concepts by introducing additional AWS services that demonstrate how to manage and deploy an application in the AWS…