AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog

Modern distributed systems route business transactions through dozens of microservices, message queues, and event streams. When a message fails to process or processing exceeds SLA thresholds, troubleshooting requires correlating logs from tools like Elasticsearch, metrics from Datadog, and infrastructure change events in AWS CloudTrail. Correlating these signals manually across heterogeneous backends, each with different query […]

We are excited to announce CDK Mixins, a feature of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that fundamentally changes how you compose and reuse infrastructure abstractions. In this post, you will learn how to use CDK Mixins to apply sophisticated features to any construct – whether L1, L2, or custom – without being locked into […]

Learn how to build CLI tools that extend themselves through natural language using Amazon Bedrock, the Strands Agents SDK, and Model Context Protocol. This post walks through a meta-tooling pattern where generated CLIs can create, refine, and version new commands at runtime—turning days of manual development into minutes of conversational iteration, all without touching source code.

Learn how AWS Transform custom can help migrate Excel VBA applications to modern Python code while overcoming context window limitations, preserving functional equivalence, and enabling cloud-native deployment—turning weeks of manual rewriting into hours of AI-guided transformation. Introduction Many organizations maintain dozens of Excel VBA applications built over decades, containing business-critical logic trapped in workbooks—budget planning […]

Authors: Sourav Kundu and Joyson Neville Lewis. In today’s cloud-native landscape, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of your serverless functions is critical for maintaining security and compliance. Organizations face increasing challenges in preventing the execution of tampered or malicious code in their AWS Lambda functions. These challenges intensify as deployment pipelines become more complex and […]

AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code. CloudFormation templates can be written directly in JSON or YAML, or they can be generated by tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Resources are created and managed by CloudFormation as units called Stacks. Managing infrastructure across multiple AWS […]

Introduction Modernizing applications by upgrading language runtimes, migrating SDKs, and refactoring frameworks is important for cloud adoption but can be labor-intensive at scale. Each repository requires analysis of dependencies and transformation needs; custom transformation logic must be built and validated, and changes are often executed sequentially across codebases. If you have hundreds of applications, this […]

Introduction As modern applications evolve into complex ecosystems of serverless functions, microservices, and event-driven architectures, incident response becomes increasingly challenging. DevOps and SRE teams spend hours manually correlating data across observability tools and troubleshooting issues, racing against SLA deadlines. This reactive firefighting drains productivity, degrades reliability, and delays innovation. AWS DevOps Agent provides an opportunity […]

When we launched Amazon Q Developer, our goal was to bring AI assistance directly into the developer workflow. Customers adopted Q Developer across VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio, using it for code generation, debugging, and chat-based guidance. Q Developer proved that AI belongs in the inner loop of software development. Over the past […]

Enterprise modernization has reached an inflection point. You can transform one repository easily. Existing tools, including AWS Transform custom, work well for individual repositories, and the process is understood. But what about 50 repositories? 100? 200? When you need to modernize at enterprise scale, transforming code is only part of the challenge. Coordinating people, capturing […]