AWS Step Functions Gains Callback Patterns to Resume Paused Workflows
I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's solution for purely event-driven serverless workflows with manual steps and third-party integrations:
Blog posts tagged #automation-with-aws
Automation with AWS 1.6
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Automation with AWS 1.6 –
this release adds a new action for AWS Systems Manager Automation to manage AWS resources from Bamboo notifications, Jira workflow transitions, and Jira Service Desk automation rule executions.
Automation with AWS 1.5
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Automation with AWS 1.5 –
this release adds a new action for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to relay event data from Bamboo notifications, Jira workflow transitions, and Jira Service Desk automation rule executions via AWS so that they can be processed by other services.
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.
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:
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:
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?:
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.
Automation with AWS 1.1
The Utoolity team is pleased to present
Automation with AWS 1.1 –
this release adds a new action for
AWS Step Functions state machines to enable coordination of
components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. You can now use the
Start Step Functions Execution
action with all existing integrations for Bamboo, JIRA and JIRA Service Desk.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Gains FIFO Queues
I have published an InfoQ news post about AWS's new ordered exactly-once Amazon SQS processing mode:
Automation with AWS 1.0
The Utoolity team is pleased to present Automation with AWS 1.0 – this release adds a Bamboo notification recipient, a JIRA post function and a JIRA Service Desk then action to run remote actions with AWS from workflows, and adds actions for AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics. You can use the Invoke Lambda Function and Publish SNS Message actions with all integrations for Bamboo and JIRA.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Gains Worldwide SMS Delivery
I have published an InfoQ news post about AWS's expanded feature set and worldwide delivery options Amazon SNS based SMS messages:
AWS Multiple Account Billing 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 billing purposes?: