Announcing the general availability of AWS Proton
It’s been six months since we introduced AWS Proton at re:Invent 2020, and today, we’re happy to announce that it is generally available and ready for your production usage!
For those not familiar with AWS Proton, let’s begin by reviewing what it is. Then, we’ll take a look at some of the features that have been added over the past six months.
AWS Proton is a fully managed application delivery service for containers and serverless applications. Platform engineering teams can use it to build complex architectures, and offer them to developers in simple, consumable units. With AWS Proton, platform teams can manage and maintain infrastructure while giving developers freedom to ship code even if they’re not cloud experts. It turns the infrastructure platform into a product the platform team delivers continuously.
When building a platform using AWS Proton, there are two main components: the environment and the service. Each of these components is made up of an AWS CloudFormation template, and a schema that describes the parameters required from the developers. Together, these parameters merge with the CloudFormation template, using common Jinja templating, to create the environment or service using any best practice or organizational standard that the platform engineers choose to include.
