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Automated CloudFormation Testing Pipeline with TaskCat and CodePipeline

Researchers at Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) use programs such as Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) and Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to interact with healthcare data. Our internal team at AWS has provided solutions such as OHDSI-on-AWS and REDCap environments on AWS to help clinicians analyze healthcare data in the AWS Cloud.

The Automated Solutions Testing Pipeline enables our team to take a proactive approach to discovering these breaks and their cause in order to expedite the repair process.

To meet our team’s needs and the needs of our customers, we decided to focus our efforts on taking a CI/CD approach to maintain these solutions.

The pipeline is triggered in one of three ways: an update to the CloudFormation Template in S3, an Amazon CloudWatch events rule, and an update to the testing source code repository.