Amazon CodeCatalyst Released
April 20, 2023

AWS announced that Amazon CodeCatalyst is now generally available.

CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that brings together everything teams need to get started planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS. CodeCatalyst was designed to make it easier for developers to spend more time developing application features and less time setting up project tools, creating and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, provisioning and configuring various development and deployment environments, and onboarding project collaborators.

CodeCatalyst provides an easy way for professional developers to build and deploy applications on AWS. There are four foundational elements of CodeCatalyst that are designed to help minimize distraction and maximize joy in the software development process:

- Blueprints get you started quickly. CodeCatalyst blueprints set up an application code repository (complete with a working sample app), define cloud infrastructure, and run pre-configured CI/CD workflows for your project. Blueprints bring together the elements that are necessary both to begin a new project and deploy it into production. Blueprints can help to significantly reduce the time it takes to set up a new project. They are built by AWS for many use cases, and you can configure them with the programming languages and frameworks that you need both for your application and the underlying infrastructure-as-code. When it comes to incorporating existing tools like Jira or GitHub, CodeCatalyst has extensions that you can use to integrate them into your projects from the beginning without a lot of extra effort. Learn more about blueprints.

- Actions-based CI/CD workflows take the pain out of pipeline management. CI/CD workflows in CodeCatalyst run on flexible, managed infrastructure. When you create a project with a blueprint, it comes with a complete CI/CD pipeline composed of actions from the included actions library. You can modify these pipelines with an action from the library or you can use any GitHub Action directly in the project to edit existing pipelines or build new ones from scratch. CodeCatalyst makes composing these actions into pipelines easier: you can switch back and forth between a text-based editor for declaring which actions you want to use through YAML and a visual drag-and-drop pipeline editor. Updating CI/CD workflows with new capabilities is a matter of incorporating new actions. Having CodeCatalyst create pipelines for you, based on your intent, means that you get the benefits of CI/CD automation without the ongoing pain of maintaining disparate tools.

- Automated dev environments make consistency achievable A big friction point for developers collaborating on a software project is getting everyone on the same set of dependencies and settings in their local machines, and ensuring that all other environments from test to staging to production are also consistent. To help address this, CodeCatalyst has Dev Environments that are hosted in the cloud. Dev Environments are defined using the devfile standard, ensuring that everyone working on a project gets a consistent and repeatable experience. Dev Environments connect to popular IDEs like AWS Cloud9, VS Code, and multiple JetBrains IDEs, giving you a local IDE feel while running in the cloud.

- Issue management and simplified team onboarding streamline collaboration. CodeCatalyst is designed to help provide the benefits of building in a unified software development service by making it easier to onboard and collaborate with teammates. It starts with the process of inviting new collaborators: you can invite people to work together on your project with their email address, bypassing the need for everyone to have an individual AWS account. Once they have access, collaborators can see the history and context of the project and can start contributing by creating a Dev Environment.

CodeCatalyst also has built-in issue management that is tied to your code repo, so that you can assign tasks such as code reviews and pull requests to teammates and help track progress using agile methodologies right in the service. As with the rest of CodeCatalyst, collaboration comes without the distraction of managing separate services with separate logins and disparate commercial agreements. Once you give a new teammate access, they can quickly start contributing.

Along with the announcement of general availability, AWS is announcing new CodeCatalyst features:

- You can now create a new project from an existing GitHub repository. In addition, CodeCatalyst Dev Environments now support GitHub repositories allowing you to work on code stored in GitHub.

- CodeCatalyst Dev Environments now support Amazon CodeWhisperer. CodeWhisperer is an artificial intelligence (AI) coding companion that generates real-time code suggestions in your integrated development environment (IDE) to help you more quickly build software. CodeWhisperer is currently supported in CodeCatalyst Dev Environments using AWS Cloud 9 or Visual Studio Code.

- Amazon CodeCatalyst recently added support to run workflow actions using on-demand or pre-provisioned compute powered by AWS Graviton processors. AWS Graviton Processors are designed by AWS to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Customers can use workflow actions running on AWS Graviton processors to build applications that target Arm architecture, create multi-architecture containers, and modernize legacy applications to help customers reduce costs.

- The library of CodeCatalyst blueprints is continuously growing. The CodeCatalyst preview release included blueprints for common workloads like single-page web applications, serverless applications, and many others. In addition, we have recently added blueprints for Static Websites with Hugo and Jekyll, as well as Intelligent Document Processing workflows.

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