AWS Proton
IT Platform teams have to spend a lot of time coordinating between different tools and processes involved in the deployment, management and update of serverless applications as well as those applications that run on containers. This puts an immense burden on both resources and finances.
AWS Proton automates this management thus allowing both Platform teams & Developers to play their respective roles efficiently without any conflict or confusion.
AWS Proton is a fully managed application deployment service for applications running on containers or serverless environments.Proton enables Platform or Operations teams to effectively manage all the various tools used by the development team for infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, monitoring and updates.
How does AWS Proton work?
Platform or Operations teams have a complex job of maintaining hundreds of microservices that involves changing CI/CD configurations, infrastructure resources etc.,Now in order to streamline all the operations, Protons allows platform teams to create a “Stack” . This Stack contains all the necessary information that is needed to provision, deploy, and monitor a service, including compute, networking, code pipeline, security, and monitoring. Then these published Stacks are accessed by the development team using the self-service interface to quickly deploy their application code with minimum configurations.
What are the benefits of using AWS Proton?
- A curated self-service interface for developers to quickly deploy application code.
- Deploy applications using approved stacks that are managed by the operations team.
- Integrates smoothly with AWS and other third-party CI/CD tools.
- Allows platform teams to effectively monitor deployments as well as to identify redundant infrastructure.
- Allows update of applications in a single click.
What are the charges associated with AWS Proton?
AWS does not charge separately for Proton. Users will only be charged for the AWS resources used for creating, running and storing the applications.
How to get started with AWS Proton?
To get started with AWS Proton, you need to have an active AWS Account Subscription. For first time registrations, there are various offers and free trials. If you already have an account, you can visit AWS Proton Console and start building template stacks here