Building an onboarding COE for AWS: Going beyond automation
summary
Nasdaq and GitLab build an onboarding COE that supplies reviewed landing zone accelerator templates, Git-based platform workflows (multiple remotes for Terraform/CDK/Ansible), and centralized pipelines that produce an audit lake for compliance and continuous verification. A migration example refactors a network automation VM into Lambdas and RDS over six months, cutting infrastructure and exposing tech‑debt with vFunction. The COE enforces guardrails via merge‑request reviews, branch strategies, and dashboards in GitLab so teams measure velocity, security posture, and cost. Key concept: refactor readiness.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:32Agenda
- 2:05Two by Twos
- 9:22Resource Utilization
- 15:14Landing Zones
- 16:21Managed Landing Zones
- 22:31GitLab
- 23:31Pipelines
- 25:08Branching
- 28:01Cloning
- 28:56Productdriven approach
- 31:04Refactor Readiness
- 35:14Measuring
- 36:08Requirements
- 45:51Custom value streams
- 47:35Executive dashboards
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