AWS Identity and Access Management Gains Tags and Attribute-Based Access Control
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's new offerings for IAM governance with tags and attribute-based access control:
Blog posts by Steffen Opel
Tasks for AWS 2.17
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Tasks for AWS 2.17 –
this release adds support for using AWS CloudFormation Macros with nested stacks, adds support for tagging ECS resources and injecting sensitive data from the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store or the AWS Secrets Manager into Amazon ECS containers, and adds support for the Python 3.7 runtime and 15 minutes execution time in AWS Lambda.
Amazon S3 Increases Request Rate Performance and Drops Randomized Prefix Requirement
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's significant simplification of working with Amazon S3 at scale:
Tasks for AWS 2.16
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Tasks for AWS 2.16 –
this release adds a new task for the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store, adds an action to update AWS Step Functions state machines, adds support for the Amazon SQS event source in AWS Lambda, and adds support for Docker volumes and private registry authentication in Amazon ECS. You can now store and query secrets and configuration data remotely via the AWS Systems Manager Parameter task, update state machines via the AWS Step Functions State Machine task, use an SQS queue as event source within the AWS Lambda Event Source Mapping task, and use Docker volumes and private registries in the Amazon ECS Task Definition task.
Automation with AWS 1.4
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Automation with AWS 1.4 –
this release adds a new action for the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store to persist event data from Bamboo notifications, Jira workflow transitions, and Jira Service Desk automation rule executions to AWS where they can be either queried or trigger notifications and actions via Amazon CloudWatch Events in turn.
Identity Federation for AWS 2.10
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Identity Federation for AWS 2.10 –
this release adds an updated REST API version 2.1 that allows to manage credentials and connectors, is available as a Data Center approved app, and increases performance for users with large connector pools.
Identity Federation for AWS 2.9
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Identity Federation for AWS 2.9 –
this release adds support for Bitbucket, and allows to disable the implicit connector visibility for administrators (experimental).
AWS Config Gains Cross-Account, Cross-Region Data Aggregation
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to simplify centralized compliance auditing of AWS resources across multiple accounts:
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:
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: