Topic: cloudformation

  • AWS CDK: Configure Alternative Operations & Security Contacts using StackSets

    October 22 nd, 2023 728 Words

    To maintain a common foundation of resources across a complex AWS Organization, CloudFormation StackSet is the perfect companion. Usually, you want to deploy a common baseline of AWS resources and additionally specificy custom deployments; like setting custom contact information for billing, operations, or security communications.

  • AWS: CloudFormation StackSet IAM Roles

    December 11 th, 2020 270 Words

    With AWS CloudFormation StackSets you can deploy a CloudFormation template to multiple AWS Accounts or AWS Regions. You can use the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or CloudFormation to use StackSets. Before using StackSets, you need to configure specific IAM roles to be used with CloudFormation StackSets.

  • Continuous Deployment With Github Action for AWS ECR

    November 29 th, 2020 254 Words

    Automated releases and deployments wil speed up your development prozess. After setting up Semantic Releases, a tagged software version can be deployed with GitHub Actions. For projects using Amazon Elastic Container Registry, you might want to build and tag a docker image for every GitHub release.

  • CloudFormation Best-Practices

    May 1 st, 2019 573 Words

    You can find plenty of frameworks and tools to provision your AWS resources. Some of them do a great job for a specific purpose, others are more generic. Nevertheless, I do prefer to use native CloudFormation templates as much as possible.

  • AppSync GraphQL API with Custom Domain and CloudFormation

    April 7 th, 2019 272 Words

    With AWS AppSync, it’s easy to run your own serverless GraphQL service API. Thanks to Velocity Mapping Templates, DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda your can aim for an architecture without any maintenance at all.

  • AWS AppSync GraphQL API using CloudFormation

    May 30 th, 2018 676 Words

    Amazon recently announced CloudFormation support for AppSync and all its features. Together with the Serverless Application Model it’s now dead simple to deploy a GraphQL API and custom Lambda resolvers without using the API at all. The GraphQL RSS Proxy example project is a serverless GraphQL API using AppSync, with an AWS Lambda function as a custom Query Resolver writting in Go.