To meet the company's requirements of centralized control of source code, a consistent and automatic delivery pipeline, and minimal maintenance tasks on the underlying infrastructure, the optimal solution involves creating one AWS CodeCommit repository for each application. Using AWS CodeBuild to build one Docker image for each application and storing these images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) ensures that the builds are consistent. Deploying the applications to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on infrastructure managed by AWS Fargate further reduces the maintenance burden, as Fargate provides serverless compute orchestration, eliminating the need to manage servers directly.
To meet the company's requirements that files with a confidential classification must only be viewable by the user who uploaded them, the DevOps engineer should modify the S3 bucket's ACL to grant `bucket-owner-read` access to the uploading user's IAM role. Additionally, creating an IAM policy that grants `s3:GetObject` operations on the S3 bucket when `aws:ResourceTag/DataClassification` equals confidential and `s3:ExistingObjectTag/Owner` equals `${aws:userid}` ensures that access is restricted only to the uploading user. This approach aligns with the need to ensure that only the owner of a confidential file can view it, thereby adhering to the stringent security requirements specified.
To ensure the Lambda function doesn't start handling orders before the necessary database changes have fully propagated, you should add a BeforeAllowTraffic hook to the AppSpec file. This hook allows you to test and confirm that all required database changes are completed before the new version of the Lambda function starts handling traffic, preventing intermittent failures during deployment.
To automate the build process for a project where the code is stored in GitHub and ensure the source code is compiled, tested, and pushed to Amazon S3, the following steps are appropriate: Adding a buildspec.yml file to the source code will define the build instructions. Configuring a GitHub webhook to trigger a build every time a code change is pushed to the repository ensures that builds are automatically initiated. Creating an AWS CodeBuild project with GitHub as the source repository will handle the build process itself using the instructions defined in the buildspec.yml file. These steps together ensure a continuous integration and delivery pipeline that meets the project's requirements.
To meet the company's requirements with the least amount of application changes, the company should use Aurora with read replicas for the product catalog and additional local Aurora instances in each region for the customer information and purchases. This approach leverages the existing Aurora setup, thereby minimizing changes to the application. Using different database technologies such as Amazon DynamoDB or Amazon Redshift would require significant changes to the application schema and CRUD operations, which contradicts the requirement of having the least amount of application changes. Aurora read replicas will ensure a single product catalog across all regions, while local Aurora instances in each region will maintain compliance by keeping customer information and purchases localized.