Using Dependabot with AWS CodeCommit

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing Dependabot with AWS CodeCommit Introduction In the DevSecOps world, maintaining code dependencies is key to acquiring the latest security vulnerability updates, bug fixes, and new features.  While locking down to “known-good” revisions of dependencies may avoid potential bugs and incompatibilities during continuous integration, critical updates could be missed.  Dependabot provides an…

Get started with Amazon Redshift cross-database queries (preview)

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGet started with Amazon Redshift cross-database queries (preview) Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL, business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon…

Integrating AWS CloudFormation Guard into CI/CD pipelines

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntegrating AWS CloudFormation Guard into CI/CD pipelines In this post, we discuss and build a managed continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that uses AWS CloudFormation Guard to automate and simplify pre-deployment compliance checks of your AWS CloudFormation templates. This enables your teams to define a single source of truth for…

Send real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSend real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights Today AWS X-Ray launches support for notifications to its insights. This means that on an X-Ray group where insights are enabled, you can now configure notifications to be sent to Amazon EventBridge. Through the use of anomaly detection, AWS X-Ray helps you…

AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in…