Automation with AWS 1.0 Release Notes

02 October 2016

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Automation with AWS 1.0 – this release adds a Bamboo notification recipient, a JIRA post function and a JIRA Service Desk then action to run remote actions with AWS from workflows, and adds the 'Publish SNS Message' and 'Invoke Lambda Function' actions.

Highlights of this release:

Updates for this release:

Highlights

Core

Invoke Lambda Function action

Use the Invoke Lambda Function action to process Bamboo notifications, JIRA workflow transitions and JIRA Service Desk automation rule executions with AWS Lambda, which lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers:

You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

Publish SNS Message action

Use the Publish SNS Message action to relay Bamboo notifications, JIRA workflow transitions and JIRA Service Desk automation rule executions via the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), a fast, flexible, fully managed push notification service that lets you send individual messages or to fan-out messages to large numbers of recipients:

Amazon SNS makes it simple and cost effective to send push notifications to mobile device users, email recipients or even send messages to other distributed services.
With Amazon SNS, you can send notifications to Apple, Google, Fire OS, and Windows devices, as well as to Android devices in China with Baidu Cloud Push. You can use SNS to send SMS messages to mobile device users worldwide.
Beyond these endpoints, Amazon SNS can also deliver messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda functions, or to any HTTP endpoint.

Bamboo

Bamboo notification recipient

Use the Automate with AWS notification recipient to run remote actions with AWS from Bamboo notifications, specifically from plan leveland system level notifications.

JIRA

JIRA post function

Use the Automate with AWS post function to run remote actions with AWS from JIRA workflow post functions.

JIRA Service Desk then action

Use the Automate with AWS then action to run remote actions with AWS from JIRA Service Desk automation rules.

Details

This release addresses the following issues:

Core
- Stories
  - As a user, I want an action to invoke a Lambda functions so that I can automate all the things with AWS
  - As a user, I want an action to publish a SNS message so that I can notify all the things with AWS
Bamboo
- Stories
  - AAWS-75 – As a user, I want to run an action via a Bamboo notification so that I can trigger external automation from plans
JIRA
- Stories
  - AAWS-73 – As a user, I want to run an action via a JIRA post function so that I can trigger external automation from workflows
  - AAWS-74 – As a user, I want to run an action via a JIRA Service Desk then action so that I can trigger external automation from rules

Release 1.0.2

2016-12-22

This release addresses the following issues:

Core
- Improvements
  - AAWS-217 – Add variable content JSON escaping
  - AAWS-282 – Surface new AWS region us-east-2
  - AAWS-283 – Surface new AWS region ca-central-1
  - AAWS-284 – Surface new AWS region eu-west-2

Release 1.0.1

2016-10-11

This release addresses the following issues:

Core
- Improvements
  - AAWS-237 – Add link to shared AWS Connector configuration
- Bugs
  - AAWS-208 – Address/Document editing of notifications resulting in multiple notifications
  - AAWS-233 – Fix event entity not always being available
  - AAWS-234 – Address/Document errors in JIRA post function preventing workflow execution
  - AAWS-235 – Defuse Publish SNS Message action log level on missing region in topic ARN