DevOps is a set of practices that combine software development (Dev) and information technology Operations (Ops) together and make it easy to make efficient applications/ software. DevOps aims to shorten the systems development life-cycle and provide continuous delivery of applications with high software quality.
What is AWS?
AWS or Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that offers cloud computing services and cloud migration services at an affordable cost. AWS provides more services and has more features compared to other providers.
We at 4 Way Technologies deal with DevOps managed services as well as cloud migration services.
AWS DevOps
AWS is the best cloud service provider and on the other hand, DevOps is the need of every organization for properly implementing software development lifecycle. For DevOps consulting services AWS is a must. AWS and DevOps managed services are a highly popular union because -
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation allows DevOps team to create and release cloud instances and services frequently.
AWS EC2
DevOps team can run containers inside EC2 instances. Hence, one can leverage AWS security and management features.
AWS CloudWatch
This is a monitoring tool used to track every resource that AWS offers. AWS CloudWatch also let developers use third-party tools for monitoring as well.
Amazon SQS
Amazon SQS is a fast, reliable, and scalable message queuing service, it can help to transmit any volume of data at any level of throughput, without losing any messages or without the use of any other service.
AWS Lamba
AWS Lamba helps to execute backend code without worrying about the underlying architecture. You just have to upload the code, and it’ll run itself.
AWS Autoscaling
The Autoscaling feature helps to rescale automatically whenever needed.
Simple Storage Service
Simple Storage Service helps in storing data in the form of objects in the AWS cloud.
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline, one of the most popular and used workflow managed tool of AWS. It highly simplifies the w2ay developers manage their CI/CD toolset. It lets the user integrate with tools like GitHub, Jenkins and CodeDeploy enabling the user to visually control the flow of application updates right from the beginning.
Steps to setup DevOps on AWS
Following steps will help you to set up DevOps on AWS –
Setup a Jenkins Build Server for continuous integration on AWS
Migrate a Git Repository to AWS to securely store your project with CodeCommit
Debug a Node.js serverless application using IDE with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.