I wrote this blog post to explore how AWS Proton streamlines the deployment and scaling of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines in AWS environments. It highlights how AWS Proton enables platform engineers to create reusable templates for provisioning containerized web applications and CI/CD pipelines using services like Amazon ECS Fargate and GitHub Actions. By leveraging Proton templates, developers can self-service deploy their applications while adhering to organizational standards for security and cost optimization. The post walks through an example using Terraform to set up a Python Flask application, demonstrating Proton’s flexibility in maintaining, updating, and scaling infrastructure templates over time.

https://github.com/aws-containers/proton-codebuild-provisioning-examples/tree/main/terraform