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DevOps on AWS: how it works and what benefits it can bring to your business

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What is DevOps?

DevOps is a set of principles, practices, and tools aimed at speeding up software creation, deployment, and support. With DevOps, all processes are automated and organized as much as possible. Practices such as continuous testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and others make it possible to release software faster and improve its reliability and quality.

The term "DevOps" combines the terms "development" and "operations," and this explains how DevOps enables ideal collaboration among different experts working on the same product. These may be specialists in development, infrastructure, security, support, and so on. They communicate and collaborate extensively, share their perspectives and experience, and work in parallel rather than waiting for someone else to finish their work.

DevOps is based on the Agile software development methodology. Its core idea is to work in clearly defined periods of time (iterations), communicate constantly with the client and among team members, use shorter development cycles, demonstrate progress frequently, continuously improve, and so on.

What is AWS? (Amazon Web Services)

AWS is a cloud platform offered by online commerce giant Amazon. Cloud technologies are known for providing data storage and access over the internet. This means you don’t have to store data on your PC’s hard drive; instead, you can access it on a remote server.

The AWS platform offers a wide range of cloud products and services. For example, it offers servers, data storage, databases, analytics, networking, development tools, data migration, security services, mobile services, tools for business productivity and customer acquisition, and so on.

DevOps on AWS: what are AWS DevOps tools?

How do DevOps and AWS work together to help your software? AWS fully supports DevOps principles and practices. AWS offers a collection of DevOps-related tools designed to make software development and support cycles more efficient. Here are some notable examples of AWS DevOps services:

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and business owners an easy way to create a collection of AWS resources. They can manage and update these resources reliably and predictably. Convenient AWS CloudFormation templates in JSON format are available for this purpose.

AWS Cloud Development Kit

AWS Cloud Development Kit is an open-source software development platform that lets developers define their cloud infrastructure in code using familiar programming languages (TypeScript, Python, C#, or Java).

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that automates the software creation, testing, and deployment phases. As soon as new software is available, it can be deployed automatically.

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeCommit is a secure and reliable version control service. It lets teams work on code simultaneously. AWS CodeCommit has secure Git repositories, so teams don’t need to set up their own.

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeBuild is a continuous integration service. It compiles source code, runs tests, and creates software packages ready for deployment. Thanks to it, there’s no need to administer your own servers.

AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CodeDeploy is a software deployment service. It automates deployment processes to services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, etc. Thanks to CodeDeploy, you can release new features quickly without software downtime during deployment.

AWS CodeStar

AWS CodeStar is a tool that lets you quickly create, build, and deploy applications on AWS. It offers a convenient interface for managing various software-related activities. You can release new features faster and manage different team members’ access to the project.

AWS Device Farm

AWS Device Farm helps ensure the quality of web and mobile applications by running tests across a wide range of browsers and real mobile devices hosted in the AWS Cloud. You save on building and administering your own testing infrastructure.

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a service that runs software code in response to certain events. It automatically manages the resources involved. With Lambda, you can deploy code without having to create infrastructure.