Automation with AWS 1.6 Release Notes

27 May 2019

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Automation with AWS 1.6 – this release adds a new action for AWS Systems Manager Automation to manage AWS resources from Bamboo notifications, Jira workflow transitions, and Jira Service Desk automation rule executions.

You can now use the Start Systems Manager Automation Execution action with all existing integrations for Bamboo, Jira, and Jira Service Desk.

Learn more and try it for free in:

On this page:

1 Highlights (Core)
- 1.1 Use the Start Systems Manager (SSM) Automation Execution action to manage AWS resources
2 Highlights (Bamboo)
- 2.1 Use the AWS CodeCommit web repository viewer
3 Highlights (Jira)
- 3.1 Create deep links to the AWS Management Console with the AWS Resource issue link type
4 Resolved issues
- 4.1 Release 1.6.2
- 4.2 Release 1.6.1
- 4.3 Release 1.6.0

Highlights (Core)

Use the Start Systems Manager (SSM) Automation Execution action to manage AWS resources

ou can now use the Start Systems Manager Automation Execution action from Bamboo notifications, Jira workflow transitions, and Jira Service Desk automation rule executions to simplify common maintenance and deployment tasks of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS resources via AWS Systems Manager Automation. This enables you to:

Build Automation workflows to configure and manage instances and AWS resources.
Create custom workflows or use pre-defined workflows maintained by AWS.
Receive notifications about Automation tasks and workflows by using Amazon CloudWatch Events.
Monitor Automation progress and execution details by using the Amazon EC2 or the AWS Systems Manager console.

Highlights (Bamboo)

Use the AWS CodeCommit web repository viewer

You can now use the AWS CodeCommit web repository viewer in Bamboo to click through with optional single sign-on (SSO) to commits and diffs in the CodeCommit console from your builds and deployments.

This feature is provided by Identity Federation for AWS (Bamboo), which is bundled and free for Automation with AWS licensees, see the resp. FAQ for details.

Highlights (Jira)

Create deep links to the AWS Management Console with the AWS Resource issue link type

You can now use the AWS Resource link remote issue link type in Jira to create deep links with optional single sign-on (SSO) to AWS resources in the AWS Management Console.

This feature is provided by Identity Federation for AWS (Jira), which is bundled and free for Automation with AWS licensees, see the resp. FAQ for details.

Resolved issues

Release 1.6.2

2019-09-26

This release addresses the following issues:

Bamboo

Bugs
- AAWS-649 – Fix Bamboo 6.10 elastic agent RuntimeException: Provider for class javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory cannot be created

Release 1.6.1

2019-06-24

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

Tasks
- AAWS-608 – Update Identity Federation for AWS dependency to 2.11.1

Release 1.6.0

2019-05-27

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

Stories
- AAWS-508 – As a user, I want to start a Systems Manager (SSM) automation execution so that I can manage AWS resources
Improvements
- AAWS-552 – Surface support for additional Step Functions regions cn-north-1 and cn-northwest-1
- AAWS-583 – Surface new AWS region Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) / ap-east-1
- AAWS-585 – Integrate AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store support for advanced parameters
Bugs
- AAWS-568 – Fix quickstart SQS queue CloudFormation template output name

Bamboo

Technical debt
- AAWS-567 – Remove warning for obsolete Bamboo notification edit bug