What's new at AWS 📢

❇️ #AWSCodePipeline introduces the Commands action that enables customer to easily run shell commands as part of pipeline execution.

❇️ With this feature, you will have access to a secure compute environment backed by CodeBuild to run AWS CLI, third-party tools, or any shell commands.

❇️ The Commands action runs CodeBuild managed on-demand EC2 compute, and uses an Amazon Linux 2023 standard 5.0 image.

❇️ Before this launch, if you wanted to run all the above commands
🔸 Need to create a CodeBuild project
🔸 Configure the project with the appropriate commands
🔸 Add a CodeBuild action to pipeline to run the project.

❇️ Now onwards, simply add the Commands action to your pipeline, and define one or more commands as part of the action configuration.

❇️ Since Commands is like any other CodePipeline action, you can use the standard CodePipeline features of input / output artifacts and output variables.

♻️ Some of key considerations:
🔸 Commands action uses CodeBuild resources similar to the CodeBuild action
🔸 Builds run by the Commands action will count toward the concurrent build limits as configured for that account.
🔸 Timeout for builds with the Commands action is 55 minutes.
🔸 This feature is not support for cross-account or cross-Region actions.

♻️ Key note for Pricing:
🔸 Commands action will incur additional charges in AWS CodeBuild.

📌 Explore more about CodePipeline Features:
https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/features/?nc=sn&loc=2