Automation

AWS Lambda – AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events, and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own backend services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security. Lambda runs your code on high-availability compute infrastructure and performs the administration of the compute resources for you. This includes server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and automatic scaling, code and security patch deployment, and code monitoring and logging. All you have to do is supply the code.

AWS Step Functions – AWS Step Functions makes it simple to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Step Functions provides a graphical console for you to arrange and visualize the components of your application as a series of steps. This makes it simple to build and run multistep applications. Step Functions automatically starts and tracks each step, and retries when there are errors, so your application runs in order and as expected.

Step Functions logs the state of each step, so when things do go wrong, you can diagnose and debug problems quickly. You can change and add steps without writing code, so you can evolve your application and innovate faster. AWS Step Functions is part of AWS Serverless, and makes it simple to orchestrate AWS Lambda functions for serverless applications. You can also use Step Functions for microservices orchestration using compute resources such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS.

AWS Systems Manager – AWS Systems Manager gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services, and enables you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources. With Systems Manager, you can group resources by application, view operational data for monitoring and troubleshooting, and act on your groups of resources. Systems Manager can keep your instances in their defined state, perform on-demand changes, such as updating applications or running shell scripts, and perform other automation and patching tasks.