Building a CI/CD pipeline for multi-region deployment with AWS CodePipeline

By Dustin Ward

This post discusses the benefits of and how to build an AWS CI/CD pipeline in AWS CodePipeline for multi-region deployment. The CI/CD pipeline triggers on application code changes pushed to your AWS CodeCommit repository. This automatically feeds into AWS CodeBuild for static and security analysis of the CloudFormation template. Another CodeBuild instance builds the application…

Career Path to Become Hadoop Developer

By Dustin Ward

One of the most noticeable areas that provide reliable opportunities for businesses to gather competitive advantage is Big Data. Recently, the number of online searches for big data Hadoop developer jobs has been increasing considerably. Hadoop is one of the most popular Big Data tools in the big data landscape. You can even consider it…

Delivering rugged video and spatial streaming capability in a flexible, cost-effective solution

By Dustin Ward

The Government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Emergency Services Agency (ESA) leverages the security and reliability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for live video streaming, archive, and complex spatial data processing. ESA is the ACT Government organisation charged with providing emergency management services to the Canberra community and works closely with its counterparts across…

Developing Migration and Rapid Application Development Strategies for SAP S/4HANA on AWS

By Dustin Ward

By Navjot Sharma, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLPBy Manas Srivastava, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Migrating from an on-premises SAP environment to SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can appear intimidating, particularly for organizations that have little experience with cloud infrastructure. There’s good reason for caution: shifting mission-critical workloads without proper planning…

ECS blue/green deployments through CodeDeploy

By Dustin Ward

You can now use CloudFormation to perform ECS blue/green deployments through CodeDeploy. Blue/green deployments are a safe deployment strategy provided by AWS CodeDeploy for minimizing interruptions caused by changing application versions.