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Using Identity Center for AWS Human User Management

This article introduces you to AWS’ solution to securing your Organization for human access - Identity Center. By the end of this article you’ll understand why you may want to use it, and be able to configure appropriate and secure human user access across your entire AWS Organization with relatively little effort.

Building your multi-Account AWS Organization

Once you’ve planned the structure of your AWS Organization, you need to build it out. This article helps you prepare and implement the Accounts in your standardized Organization.

AWS beyond the sandbox - moving to a multi-Account Organization

It makes sense for most companies using AWS to adopt a multi-Account AWS Organization. This article explains why, and how you can start planning a structured Organization as part of a holistic approach to company-wide “org ops”.

AWS CDK - The Good, The Bad and the Scary

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) has become, in its short history, a very popular infrastructure-as-code tool. It’s not too surprising why - it allows engineers to use richer programming languages to define infrastructure, rather than having to use JSON or YAML.

CodePipeline Versioner

AWS CodePipeline is AWS’ CD orchestration tool. We’re fans of CodePipeline at Symphonia : we use it with our clients, and on our own projects. To read a quick overview of CodePipeline see this earlier article that I wrote.

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery on AWS

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are techniques that I’ve had a passion about for a long time. Back in the Dim And Distant Past of 2003 I even co-led an open source project that brought some at-the-time interesting innovations to this area.

Podcast Interview with Stelligent

Mike and John chatted with our friends at Stelligent — Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich as part of their DevOps in AWS Radio podcast series. We covered a lot in this conversation!