Exploring AWS CodeCommit: Benefits and Overview

DevOps is a popular culture and AWS is a popular cloud provider and both are in demand. So how to implement DevOps on AWS?

AWS CodeCommit is a fully managed source control solution offered by Amazon Web solution. It is a version code service. It aids in the management and storage of assets such as codes, papers, and other file types such as binary files. It enables the team to collaborate in a secure and highly scalable environment. It does away with the requirement for third-party version control as well as your own source control system. By using the CodeCommit service, you can effortlessly work with your existing Git tools. You may easily save your source code and other files, as well as push, pull, and commit data.

Note: After careful consideration, AWS has decided to close new customer access to AWS CodeCommit on July 25, 2024. AWS CodeCommit’s existing customers can continue to utilize the service as usual. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance enhancements for AWS CodeCommit, but we do not intend to provide new functionality.

In this post, we will discuss AWS CodeCommit in detail. We will discuss:

• Overview Of AWS CodeCommit
• Benefits Of AWS CodeCommit 
• Working Of AWS CodeCommit
• Creating AWS CodeCommit Repository
• Branches 
• Benefits Of Branches
• Pricing OF AWS CodeCommit

So let’s get started with AWS CodeCommit.

Overview Of AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeCommit is a version control service hosted by Amazon  Web Services (AWS) that you can use to privately store and manage assets such as documents, source code, and binary files. It is an in-house repository or infrastructure that lets you host or hold repositories. AWS CodeCommit basically gives you an environment where you can actually go ahead and commit your code, code pushes it or pull it.

AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts your secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for groups to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. CodeCommit securely stores anything from source code to binaries, and it runs seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

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Benefits Of AWS CodeCommit

• Store any type of Code: AWS CodeCommit lets you store any type of code as there are very fewer restrictions on the type and the extensions of the code that you store.
• Fully Managed:  AWS CodeCommit eliminates the need to host, maintain, back up, and scale your own source control servers. The service automatically scales to meet the growing needs of your project.
• Faster development lifecycle: AWS CodeCommit keeps your repositories close to your build, staging, and production environments in the AWS cloud. You can transfer incremental changes instead of the entire application. This allows you to increase the speed and frequency of your development lifecycle.
• Ensures Collaborative Work: AWS CodeCommit allows you to collaborate on code with teammates via pull requests, branching, and merging, and you can grant appropriate access to people who can access this piece of code, make changes to it, and this process becomes very engaging and collaborative under different IAM users and security groups.
• Highly Secure: Security is something that you don’t need to worry about with AWS Code Commit., like the code, you push or pull is encrypted. CodeCommit is integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allowing you to customize user-specific access to your repositories.
• Scale Easily: When you talk about cloud platforms and any service, it ensures scalability so does the amount of code you push on this particular service.
• Integrate with third-party tools:The best thing about AWS CodeCommit is that it places your code in areas where it is really easy to interact with third-party solutions. With CodeCommit, you may continue to use your preferred development environment plugins, continuous integration/continuous delivery systems, and graphical clients.

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Before creating an AWS CodeCommit Repository let’s check its working first.

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