Category: Developer Tools

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 […]

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 […]

This is a guest post written by Jasdeep Singh Bhalla from GoDaddy. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Aspects are a powerful mechanism that allows you to apply organization-wide policies, like security rules, tagging standards, and compliance requirements across your entire infrastructure as code. By implementing the Visitor pattern, Aspects can inspect and modify every construct […]

Standardizing CDK construct properties across a large organization requires repetitive manual effort that scales poorly as teams and repositories grow. Development teams working with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) must apply the same configuration properties across similar resources to meet security, compliance, and operational standards but manual configuration leads to drift, maintenance burden, and […]

March 2026: This post has been updated to reflect that Amazon ECS now supports canary and linear deployment strategies natively as of October 2025. The recommendation has been updated accordingly to reflect ECS-native as the default choice for new deployments. Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have long been a go-to pattern […]

AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), CloudFormation and CDK provide the flexibility you need. For organizations adopting multi-account strategies, CloudFormation […]

The AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC) methodology marks a significant change in software development by strategically assigning routine tasks to AI while maintaining human oversight for critical decisions. Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI coding assistant, supports the entire software development lifecycle and offers the Project Rules feature, allowing users to tailor their development practices […]

AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC) holds the promise of unlocking the full potential of AI in software development. By emphasizing AI-led workflows and human-centric decision-making, AI-DLC can deliver velocity and quality. However, realizing these gains hinges on how organizations effectively integrate AI into their engineering workflows. Through our work with engineering teams across industries, we […]

Streamline your AWS infrastructure development with AI-powered documentation search, validation, and troubleshooting Introduction Today, we’re excited to introduce the AWS Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) MCP Server, a new tool that bridges the gap between AI assistants and your AWS infrastructure development workflow. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server enables AI assistants like Kiro CLI, […]

Back in July 2024, we announced plans to de-emphasize AWS CodeCommit based on adoption patterns and our assessment of customer needs. We never stopped looking at the data or listening to you, and what you’ve shown us is clear: you need an AWS-managed solution for your code repositories. Based on this feedback, CodeCommit is returning […]