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Today, I am excited to share my new course: AWS CDK with Python Step by Step. In this post, I will summarize the contents of the course and why you should learn AWS CDK. I will also share a discount coupon special for the launch for those interested.

Continue reading the NEW! AWS CDK with Python Step by Step blog post.

AWS CDK and AWS CloudFormation are powerful infrastructure as code tools to automate the creation of your AWS resources. Both tools can help you achieve operational excellency on AWS by removing manual provisioning methods like AWS Management Console or AWS CLI and eliminating possible human errors caused by only using them.

However, you might be wondering which to choose if you are new to AWS CDK or CloudFormation or just beginning to apply infrastructure as code on AWS. Therefore, in this post, I will discuss the differences and similarities between AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK to help you understand them.

Continue reading the AWS CDK vs. AWS CloudFormation blog post.

I am excited to share our newest section in my Udemy bestseller AWS CodePipeline Step by Step course, Building Docker Images & ECS Rolling Deployments With AWS CodePipeline.

If you’ve not joined yet, for the next five days, you can join this course with a best-price coupon special to the launch of the new section using the link below:

https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-codepipeline-step-by-step/?couponCode=NEW-LEARNINGS-2025

Our newest section focuses on building your Docker images, publishing them to Docker Hub or Amazon ECR with AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild, and deploying them to Amazon ECS as rolling deployments** using the direct integration of CodePipeline with ECS.

Continue reading the New Section! Building Docker Images & ECS Rolling Deployments With AWS CodePipeline blog post.

Stack policies are among the most helpful features of AWS CloudFormation for protecting your stacks from unintended updates. Let’s say that you have an Amazon RDS instance that you manage with AWS CloudFormation. After a while, you change one of its attributes and update your stack. Guess what! The update you considered innocent was not so after all. It replaces your database instance with all the data inside. It’s a nightmare, isn’t it? So, you wish there were a CloudFormation feature preventing this from happening.

Luckily, CloudFormation has stack policies to help you in situations like this. In this post, I will talk about stack policies and how to use them as a supplementary protection mechanism in your stack updates.

Continue reading the AWS CloudFormation Stack Policy Conditions: Don't Replace or Delete My DB Instances on Stack Updates blog post.

Today, applying CI/CD is one of the most crucial DevOps practices. CI means Continous Integration, whereas CD can be applied as either Continuous Development or Continuous Deployment. Sometimes the terminology may seem confusing and people talking about them often assume that you know them from the beginning. So, as a developer applying CI/CD for years and having launched a course about the native CI/CD solution of AWS, AWS CodePipeline, I may help you understand these DevOps concepts. In this post, I will discuss what CI and CD practices mean and explain their differences.

Continue reading the CI vs. CD: What are Continuous Integration, Delivery or Development? blog post.