Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

 Overview Customers adopting Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered coding companion, often need authentication through existing identity providers like PingIdentity. By leveraging AWS IAM Identity Center, organizations can enable their developers to access Amazon Q Developer with their existing PingIdentity credentials, streamlining authentication and removing the need for separate login procedures. Amazon Q Developer can […]

Developers today face a constant balancing act – building new features and functionality while also ensuring the security and reliability of their codebase. Two powerful tools, Snyk and Amazon Q Developer, can work in tandem to help developers navigate this challenge with greater efficiency and efficacy. Snyk is a leading developer security platform that empowers […]

Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified service that streamlines the entire software development lifecycle, empowering teams to build, deliver, and scale applications on AWS. DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security into all stages of software development. Rather than prioritizing features, it injects security into an earlier phase of the development process – baking it into […]

Overview In this blog post, I’ll explain how to use a Microsoft Entra ID and Visual Studio Code editor to access Amazon Q developer service and speed up your development. Additionally, I’ll explain how to minimize the time spent on repetitive tasks and quickly integrate users from external identity sources so they can immediately use […]

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde In the real world as in the world of technology and authentication, the ability to understand who we are is important on many levels. In this blog post, we’ll look at how the ability to uniquely identify ourselves in the AWS console can lead to a […]

Note: Customers no longer need to manage their own GitHub runners, you can now use AWS CodeBuild for managed GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, which provides ephemeral and scalable runner environment with strong security boundaries and low start up latency. With AWS CodeBuild, you don’t need to maintain your own infrastructure or build scaling logic, as […]

Introduction Today customers want to reduce manual operations for deploying and maintaining their infrastructure. The recommended method to deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS is to follow Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) model using tools like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or Terraform. One of the critical components in terraform is managing the state file which […]

A Case Study Presented by CodeWhisperer Customizations Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered coding assistant that is trained on a wide variety of data, including Amazon and open-source code. With the launch of CodeWhisperer Customizations, customers can create a customization resource. The customization is produced by augmenting CodeWhisperer using a customer’s private code repositories. This enables […]

This post demonstrates using AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy CloudFormation Hooks from a centralized delegated administrator account to all accounts within an Organization Unit(OU). It provides step-by-step guidance to deploy controls at scale to your AWS Organization as Hooks using StackSets. By following this post, you will learn how to deploy a hook to hundreds […]

Customers using Amazon CodeWhisperer often want to enable their developers to sign in using existing identity providers (IdP), such as Okta. CodeWhisperer provides support for authentication either through AWS Builder Id or AWS IAM Identity Center. AWS Builder ID is a personal profile for builders. It is designed for individual developers, particularly when working on […]