What's changed: Service coverage: added a catalog section (s4) for developer tools and operations management (CI/CD, Grafana/Prometheus, Proton, Amplify/Device Farm)
3.4Developer Tools and Operations Management Services
Supporting services for improvement and automated delivery—CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact, CodeGuru), open-source-compatible observability (Managed Grafana, Managed Service for Prometheus), standardized templates (Proton), and frontend/testing (Amplify, Device Farm)—by definition, role, and when to choose.
Continuous improvement needs pipelines that deliver change safely and automatically, plus a basis to observe state. This section organizes the related services by definition, role, and when to choose.
3.4.1CI/CD pipeline
- AWS CodePipeline: orchestration that automates the build to test to deploy flow. Choose it to chain stages triggered by source changes (the overall pipeline controller).
- AWS CodeBuild: managed build that compiles/tests/produces artifacts. Choose it to run CI builds without managing servers.
- AWS CodeDeploy: automated deployment to EC2/on-prem/Lambda/ECS (rolling/blue-green/canary). Choose it to automate releases with safe deployment strategies.
- AWS CodeArtifact: managed repository for software packages (npm/Maven/PyPI, etc.). Choose it to share and cache internal dependencies securely.
- Amazon CodeGuru: ML-based automated code-review findings and application profiling. Choose it to continuously improve code quality and expensive code paths.
3.4.2Open-source-compatible observability
- Amazon Managed Grafana: managed Grafana (dashboard visualization). Choose it to visualize metrics from many sources in Grafana centrally.
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus: managed Prometheus (time-series metrics). Choose it to store Kubernetes/container Prometheus metrics without operational overhead.
3.4.3Standardization, frontend, and testing
- AWS Proton: lets a platform team define standard container/serverless templates and offer self-service to developers to standardize and govern IaC and deployments across an organization (note: AWS Proton stopped onboarding new customers in 2024; alternatives are Service Catalog or CDK/CloudFormation plus pipelines).
- AWS Amplify: combines frontend/full-stack hosting with backend provisioning. Choose it to launch web/mobile apps quickly with CI/CD hosting included.
- AWS Device Farm: cloud service to test apps on real phones/browsers. Choose it to automate compatibility testing across many real devices.
Common distinctions: whole pipeline = CodePipeline; build = CodeBuild; deploy (blue-green, etc.) = CodeDeploy; package management = CodeArtifact; code quality/profiling = CodeGuru; Grafana dashboards = Managed Grafana; Prometheus metrics = Managed Service for Prometheus; IaC standardization = Proton; real-device testing = Device Farm. CodePipeline orchestrates; CodeBuild/CodeDeploy execute (build/deploy).
3.4.4Section summary
- CI/CD = CodePipeline (orchestrate)/CodeBuild (build)/CodeDeploy (deploy)/CodeArtifact/CodeGuru
- Observability = Managed Grafana/Managed Service for Prometheus; standardization = Proton; FE/testing = Amplify/Device Farm
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(just a quick review)Q1. You want orchestration that chains build, test, and deploy stages automatically on source change. What?
Q2. You want to automate production deployments to EC2/ECS safely via blue-green or canary. What?
Q3. A platform team wants to define approved container/serverless templates and offer governed self-service to developers. What?
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