Summary of AWS Blogs for the Week of Monday, March 27

In the week of Monday, March 27, 2023, AWS published 92 blog posts – here is an overview of what happened.

Topics Covered

Desktop and Application Streaming

Modernizing VDI with AWS and IGEL Disrupt 2023

Organizations looking to reduce cost and scale quickly can migrate some or all of their digital assets to the cloud. A recent study by The Hackett Group showed that migrating to AWS gave quantifiable business value in areas such as resiliency, agility, cost savings, and staff.

In the same vein, Amazon End User Computing (EUC) team is getting ready for IGEL Disrupt 2023 in Nashville (April 3rd – 5th), following their event in Munich. Kevin Goodman, Director of Product Management for AWS EUC, shared interesting insights from Munich, and is looking forward to the Nashville event.

Benefits of Modernizing VDI with AWS

By migrating digital assets to the cloud with AWS, organizations will be able to innovate faster, while scaling more quickly and creating better customer and employee experiences. Other benefits include:

  • Reduced cost
  • More resilience in their solutions
  • Increased agility
  • Better customer experience

Achieving Modernization with AWS and IGEL Disrupt 2023

Migrating to AWS is an important and valuable step in modernizing VDI, and IGEL Disrupt 2023 can help organizations gain the knowledge and insight necessary for successful migration and deployment. At IGEL Disrupt 2023, attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about desktop and application streaming and modernizing their VDI with AWS from experts in the field.

Cloud2 Can Help

At Cloud2, our team of experts can help you get the most out of AWS. We provide both professional services and managed services with years of experience in the AWS Cloud. Our expertise in AWS allows us to help organizations migrate to the cloud, and make the most of their AWS solutions. Visit our website here to learn more about how we can help.

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AWS DevOps Blog

Optimizing the Cost of AWS CodeBuild While Enabling DevSecOps, Extending CloudFormation and CDK, and Publishing DevOps Guru Insights to ServiceNow

Optimizing the Cost of AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that can compile source code, run tests, and deploy software packages. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision and manage your own build servers. You can just define the source code location and your build settings and CodeBuild will run your build scripts. It is important to be aware of the costs associated with CodeBuild and to optimize your builds for cost. One way to optimize your builds is to use multiple build environments that are tailored for different tasks, for example, one for compiling and one for running tests. You can also set up parallel builds to speed up your builds by running multiple build jobs at the same time. Finally, you can use AWS Savings Plans to save up to 72% on CodeBuild and other services. With these strategies, you can optimize the cost of your CodeBuild builds.

Enabling DevSecOps with Amazon CodeCatalyst

DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security testing into the entire software development process. Amazon CodeCatalyst provides tools to facilitate collaboration between developers, security specialists, and ops teams in order to build secure software. Amazon CodeCatalyst encourages cultural transformation which makes security everyone’s responsibility. Additionally, CodeCatalyst includes features such as automated vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence, and runtime protection which can help organizations secure their applications.

Extending CloudFormation and CDK with Third-Party Extensions

With the AWS CloudFormation Public Registry, you can use CloudFormation to manage third-party resources. This registry provides a searchable collection of CloudFormation extensions, making it easy to discover and use them in CloudFormation templates and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications. Over the past three months, the Public Registry has added many new and exciting partners. Additionally, the registry supports a wide variety of use cases, including serverless applications, stream processing, and data lake.

Publish Amazon DevOps Guru Insights to ServiceNow for Incident Management

Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed AIOps service which uses machine learning to detect when applications behave outside of their normal operating patterns and then generates insights. These insights can be used to alert on-call teams to anomalies in mission-critical workloads. With Amazon DevOps Guru and ServiceNow, you can publish insights from Amazon DevOps Guru to ServiceNow for incident management. This enables teams to quickly identify and address incidents and anomalies in their applications.

How Cloud2 Can Help

At Cloud2, we are experienced in solving problems related to DevOps, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CodeCatalyst, CloudFormation, and Amazon DevOps Guru. We can provide professional and managed services to help your teams optimize their build costs and enable DevSecOps, extend CloudFormation and CDK with third-party extensions, and publish DevOps Guru insights to ServiceNow. Contact us to learn more.

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