VM service for development and tests environment

Question

Hello,

I am in search of an AWS service that can offer a development and test environment for our developers. To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of any CaaS service (Configuration as a Service) that fulfills this requirement. If anyone is aware of such a service, please let me know.

I am aware of Cloud9, which uses EC2, but it doesn't exactly match what I need. I am looking for a solution with minimal configuration, similar to how Azure offers Microsoft DevBox.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance. Thank you!

Best regards,
Kilian GOËTZ

Answer

If you want a development and test area such as a sandbox which you can deploy per team or developer, then you are going to have to use something like local stack for them to use locally (Ive never tried it) or you are going to have to write some IaC..

You can use Terraform or Cloudformation which allows you to repeatedly deploy a new environment and services repeatedly.

If you want a virtual machine for your users, then AWS offers Workspaces where you can create a golden image and then deploy/provision to each developer

VM service for development and tests environment

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