Introducing AWS Ancillary Services for DevOps

AWS offers core services used in a CI/CD pipeline. However, other AWS services can be used along with these core services to make the deployment pipeline more agile, responsive, and portable. In short, the core AWS services help us lay out the DevOps pipeline, and the ancillary services help us ensure that the pipeline runs without errors.

Imagine a person training to participate in the Olympics. They do all the hard work of eating, preparing, and practicing well. But they are of no use if they don’t have a weighing scale to check their weight consistently or they don't have the equipment to check their vitals regularly or monitor their performance conveniently. Their training is useless without all this additional equipment that can provide meaningful feedback. That's how critical it is to deploy a monitoring service in our delivery pipeline.

The diagram below shows the AWS services that can be leveraged by the project teams in the monitoring phase of DevOps. The monitoring phase includes alerting, auditing, and config management. To make our software delivery pipeline respond quickly to customer feedback, we must focus on the monitoring phase. To consistently gain our customers’ trust and loyalty, we must listen to their challenges and promptly address their issues. Though there are many third-party tools that we have seen before, there ...