AWS has announced the general availability of Console to Code.This tool is powered by Amazon Q Developer and will reduce the manual configuration of AWS resources through the console by generating reusable code that accelerates deployment, enhances consistency, and supports automation.
Console to Code makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to move from prototyping in the AWS Management Console to building code for production deployments. Customers can generate code for their console actions in their preferred format with a single click.
Console to Code provides code in CLI, CloudFormation, and CDK formats. CLI code is recorded as customers take actions in the console and replicates underlying AWS best practices.
Console to Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer, is generally available in commercial regions for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
AWS Console to Code allows users to generate infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from manual console interactions.
The DevOps approach emphasizes automation, collaboration, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to optimize development and operational workflows. AWS Console to Code is particularly beneficial in this context.
Console to Code is beneficial in terms of accelerating automation, ensuring consistency, and providing a user-friendly infrastructure setup.
The single-click CLI code generation experience is based on the API commands that were used when actions were executed (while launching the EC2 instance).
AWS Console-to-Code has extended support to include Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
AWS CDK is an open-source framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation.