Taming AWS CloudFormation with YAML, Jinja2 and other tricks – Part 1
A look at some tools and tricks for making AWS CloudFormation development faster, more efficient, and more fun.
We can help you design AWS infrastructure from scratch for a new project, or define a roadmap to migrate from existing on-premise infrastructure to AWS with minimal risk and service disruption.
We can also help you understand and exploit the paradigms in AWS that do not usually exist for on-premise infrastructure, such as auto-scaling, immutable servers and on-demand billing.
AWS makes it possible to create infrastructure entirely in software, without dealing with physical hardware. A software engineering mindset is required to do this effectively – something that is at the core of all of Priocept’s services.
We will help you build your new AWS infrastructure using software engineering best practice throughout, defining everything as “infrastructure-as-code” using either CloudFormation or Terraform.
Going beyond your core AWS infrastructure, Priocept can also help you achieve efficient and highly automated software delivery processes.
By using cloud native deployment strategies, configuration management tools such as Ansible, automated test tools such as Selenium or Cypress, and continuous integration / continuous delivery (“CI/CD”) tools from AWS or others such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, we will ensure that you can deliver software into production at any time and with minimal risk.
We can also provide 24/7 support for your AWS infrastructure.
This starts by designing the infrastructure to be inherently reliable and fault tolerant to minimise the possibility of outages, but goes further to include sophisticated monitoring tools and incident management systems.
Our team is then on-call whenever needed, to ensure that your infrastructure runs as it should, all of the time.
Priocept has experience working with numerous AWS products and technologies, including the following:
Athena, Redshift, Elasticsearch
SNS, SQS, API Gateway
EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda
Elastic Container Registry, Elastic Kubernetes Service
Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS
CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Device Farm
IoT Core
SageMaker, Rekognition, TensorFlow
CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Well-Architected Tool
VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, ELB
IAM, Certificate Manager, WAF
S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier
As an official AWS Consulting Partner, our consultants and software engineers maintain various AWS certifications, including:
Based in central London, Priocept are one of a limited number of companies in the UK that have achieved certified partner status for all three of the major cloud infrastructure providers – Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.