AWS Open Sources and Expands Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to accelerate the evolution of CloudFormation's built-in serverless support:
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Automation with AWS 1.3
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Automation with AWS 1.3 –
this release adds a new action for
Amazon CloudWatch Events to relay, match and route Atlassian workflow events to AWS where they can be processed by one or more target services, and adds plan, result and deployment entity variables to ease Bamboo notification payload composition. You can now use the
Put CloudWatch Events action with all existing integrations for Bamboo, Jira and Jira Service Desk, and you can
inject additional entity variables into Bamboo notification payloads.
AWS Makes Serverless Application Repository Generally Available
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to establish a discovery and distribution platform for serverless solutions:
Real-Time Insights on AWS Account Activity
Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers
collection with AWS solutions related to
Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace.
Learn about this recent AWS solution in How do I monitor my AWS account activity in real-time?:
AWS Instance Scheduler
Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers
collection with AWS solutions related to
Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace.
Learn about this recent AWS solution in
How do I automatically start and stop my Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances?:
AWS Streamlines Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing Model and Operational Complexity
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to ease usage of and widen applicable use cases for its low-cost EC2 compute capacity pool:
Tasks for AWS 2.15
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Tasks for AWS 2.15 –
this release catches up on several
serverless announcements from 'AWS re:Invent 2017': It adds support for the
AWS Fargate launch type in
Amazon ECS, and adds support for
traffic shifting,
concurrency limits, and the C# .NET Core 2.0 and Go 1.x runtimes in
AWS Lambda. You can now run your Docker containers as an
Amazon ECS Task or
Amazon ECS Service without managing servers and clusters, and exercise more control over the deployment and concurrent execution of an
AWS Lambda Function, which can now also use the C# .NET Core 2.0 and Go 1.x runtimes.
Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards Gains API and CloudFormation Support
I have published an InfoQ news post about AWS's after the fact addition of automation capabilities for CloudWatch Dashboards:
Identity Federation for AWS 2.8
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Identity Federation for AWS 2.8 –
this release adds support for Confluence, and adds support for a destination URL to the AWS Management Console Single Sign-On (SSO) API. You can now use the
AWS Resources macro to create dashboards and share deep links to the AWS Management console with your team. Get started quickly with the
AWS Resources blueprint to provide example dashboards for AWS services and resources and AWS account management.
AWS Ops Automator
Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers
collection with AWS solutions related to
Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace.
Learn about this recent AWS solution in How do I automate AWS snapshot scheduling?:
Amazon CloudWatch Events Gains Cross-Account Event Delivery
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to ease cross-account tracking of CloudWatch events:
AWS Tagging Strategies
Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers
collection with AWS solutions related to
Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace.
Learn about this recent AWS solution in How should I tag my AWS resources?:
AWS Multiple Account Security Strategy
Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers
collection with AWS solutions related to
Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace.
Learn about this recent AWS solution in How do I manage multiple AWS accounts for security purposes?:
Automation with AWS 1.2
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Automation with AWS 1.2 –
this release adds a Bamboo task to run remote actions with AWS from Bamboo jobs in build and deployment
projects, and adds utility functions to ease JSON escaping, URL encoding, and Base64 encoding.
You can now use the
Automate with AWS task
with all available AWS actions, and you can
compose action payloads with utility functions.
Tasks for AWS 2.14
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Tasks for AWS 2.14 –
this release adds support for
providing task configuration as code via URLs, adds support for
sharing objects via pre-signed URLs in Amazon S3, adds support for
Custom Platforms in
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and adds support for the Python 3.6 runtime in
AWS Lambda. You can now
inject task configuration for JSON and YAML parameters via URLs to provide configuration as code,
generate a pre-signed S3 URL to temporarily share private S3 objects with subsequent build steps,
use your own custom Elastic Beanstalk platform created with HashiCorp's Packer, and create an
AWS Lambda Function with the Python 3.6 runtime.
Tasks for AWS 2.13
The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.13 – this release adds optional AWS security credentials validation at configuration time, adds explicit handling of the non standard AWS partitions AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US), adds support for the Node.js 6.10 runtime in AWS Lambda, and adds support for the Packer der in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. You can now ensure that provided AWS security credentials are valid, enable non standard AWS partitions as a Labs Feature, create an AWS Lambda Function with the Node.js 6.10 runtime, and create your own custom Elastic Beanstalk platform with HashiCorp's Packer.