Category: AWS CloudFormation

When running large scale applications and workloads in the cloud, customers need a streamlined visibility across their environment especially when these workloads are distributed among separate AWS accounts for regulatory, compliance, security, or cost tracking reasons. AWS Control Tower simplifies and automates the account provisioning while maintaining a consistent baseline configuration with prescriptive blueprints and […]

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that enables qualified Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to market software solutions and makes it easy for AWS customers to find, buy, and deploy software on AWS. In this post, I will explain a use case where CloudFormation template is a better fit than a Single-AMI solution, and then I […]

In this post, I will show you how to automate the installation of software from AWS Marketplace onto your golden AMI using Private Image Build, a new feature of AWS Marketplace currently in public beta. A “golden AMI” or “gold image” is an AMI you standardize through configuration, consistent security patching, and hardening. It also contains agents […]

Updated 1/9/2020 On 12/1/2019, AWS released EC2 Image Builder, which simplifies the creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and deployment of Linux or Windows Server images. We now recommend AWS customers use EC2 Image Builder to manage your golden images. Find out more about EC2 Image Builder here, and read this blog post Automate OS image build […]

Continuous delivery (CD) has many advantages: faster build/test/deploy cycles, less manual work for developers, higher quality software, and more reliable updates. So why doesn’t everyone work this way? One reason is that the path to implementation can be bumpy. Particularly for large enterprises, there can be a steep learning curve—especially when teams are expected to […]