Understanding the AWS Code Suite

Besides providing a plethora of infrastructure-related services, AWS also provides a few services that are designed to help developers quickly design, develop, build, and deploy their applications on the AWS cloud platform. In this section, we will have a quick look at these services and how you can leverage them together to build your very own continuous integration and delivery pipelines:

• AWS CodeCommit: An important starting point for any CI/ CD pipeline is a simple yet functional source control repository. Traditionally, this would be set up on one or more physical servers in the form a Git or SVN repository that developers would use to push their code and updates to; however, maintaining such code repositories and scaling them was always going to be a challenge. That's where AWS CodeCommit comes into play! AWS CodeCommit is a managed source control service that enables developers to securely store their code on the AWS cloud. It offers many of the features...