Month: November 2019

re:Invent 2019 is fast approaching (NEXT WEEK!) and we here at the AWS DevOps blog wanted to take a moment to highlight DevOps focused presentations, share some tips from experienced re:Invent pro’s, and highlight a few sessions that still have availability for pre-registration. We’ve broken down the track into one overarching leadership session and four topic areas: (a) architecture, (b) culture, (c) software delivery/operations, and (d) AWS tools, services, and CLI. In total there will be 145 DevOps track sessions, stretched over 5 days, and divided into four distinct session types: Sessions (34) are one-hour presentations delivered by AWS experts and customer speakers who shareRead More →

It is often useful to notify other systems of the build status of a code change, such as by creating release tickets in your project-tracking software when a build succeeds, or posting a message to your team’s chat solution. A previous blog post showed you how to integrate AWS Lambda and Amazon SNS to extend AWS CodeCommit to send email notifications for file changes. This blog post shows you how to integrate AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon CloudWatch Events to extend AWS CodeBuild by adding webhook functionality, allowing you to make authenticated API calls to 3rd-party services in responseRead More →

with Tom Koukourdelis (Broadridge – Vice President, Head of Global Cloud Platform Development and Engineering), Sreedhar Reddy (Broadridge – Vice President, Enterprise Cloud Architecture) We have seen large enterprises in all industry segments meaningfully utilizing AWS to build new capabilities and deliver business value. While doing so, enterprises have to balance existing systems, processes, tools, and culture while innovating at pace with industry disruptors. Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) is no exception. Broadridge is a $4 billion global FinTech leader and a leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers, and corporate issuers. This blog post explores how weRead More →

Today, AWS X-Ray launches support for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, enabling developers to trace end-to-end requests from configurable scripts called “canaries”.  These canaries run the test script to monitor web endpoints and APIs using modular, light-weight tests that run 24×7, once per minute. It continuously captures the behavior and availability of the endpoint or URL being monitored, reporting what end-customers are seeing. Customers get alerted immediately in case of failures and tie them back to the root-cause using traces. These canaries provide a complete picture of all the services invoked in the path. With this feature, developers and DevOps engineers can correlate failures in the applicationRead More →

DevOps teams widely use Slack channels as communication hubs where team members interact—both with one another and with the systems they operate. Chatbots help facilitate these interactions, delivering important notifications and relaying commands from users back to systems. Many teams even prefer that operational events and notifications come through Slack channels. This allows the entire team to see notifications and act on them through commands to chatbots. Earlier this year, AWS announced a beta of AWS Chatbot that enabled DevOps teams receive AWS notifications in Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. Customers have used AWS Chatbot to stay on top of their operational, security,Read More →

AWS CodeBuild announced the launch of a new feature in CodeBuild called Reports. This feature allows you to view the reports generated by functional or integration tests. The reports can be in the JUnit XML or Cucumber JSON format. You can view metrics such as Pass Rate %, Test Run Duration, and number of Passed versus Failed/Error test cases in one location. Builders can use any testing frameworks as long as the reports are generated in the supported formats. You can see the test reports created by CodeBuild in the respective Report Group, where they are stored for 30 days. For longer retention, you canRead More →

This blog post demonstrates how to integrate AWS CodePipeline with on-premises Bitbucket Server. If you want to integrate with Bitbucket Cloud, see Integrating Git with AWS CodePipeline. The AWS Lambda function provided can get the source code from a Bitbucket Server repository whenever the user sends a new code push and store it in a designed Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. The Bitbucket Server integration uses webhooks configured in the Bitbucket repository. Webhooks are ideal for this case and avoid the need for performing frequent polling to check for changes in the repository. Some security protections are available with this solution: The AmazonRead More →

by Geethalaksmi Ramachandran (FINRA – Director, Application Engineering), Avinash Chukka (FINRA – Senior Application Engineer) At FINRA, a financial regulatory organization that oversees the broker-dealer industry with market intelligence, we have been utilizing the AWS CodeDeploy services to deploy applications on the cloud as well as on on-premises production servers. This blog post provides insight into our operations and experience with CodeDeploy. Migration overview Since 2014, we have gone through a systematic effort to migrate over 100 applications from on-premises resources to the AWS Cloud for everything from case management to data ingestion and processing. The applications comprise multiple components or microservices as individually deployable unitsRead More →