Introduction to the AWS Proton service
The AWS Proton service was developed by AWS after they considered lots of feedback from customers, where the main issue was how to maintain infrastructure, build pipelines, and deploy applications at scale. Initially, when the service became generally available, it was difficult to understand the components of AWS Proton and how it is different from AWS Service Catalog and other developer tools. This service has a couple of components that will be a bit confusing to you if you are just reading the documentation and not looking at the template code. So, in this section, we will dive deep into how AWS Proton solves the problem of maintenance of infrastructure, as well as how it helps you build pipelines and application deployments at scale.
What is AWS Proton?
AWS Proton is a two-fork automation framework engine that does the following:
- Automates the infrastructure provisioning process using an environment template. This environment...