Code Commit 101

AWS CodeCommit

• Fully managed Source Control service that enables companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories
• Git is an industry-standard Open Source distributed source control system
  • Centralized repository for all your code, binaries, imagies, and libraries
  • Tracks and manages code changes
  • Maintains version history
  • Manages updates from multiple sources
  • Enables collaboration
• Users create a copy (known as a branch) of the master repository, which they can update independently without impacting other users
• Saved code changes which are ready to be applied to a repository are known as a commit
• When the updated code located in a branch is ready to be added to the master repository, the branch is then merged into the master repository
• AWS CodeCommit provides all the functionality of Git and you can use Git on your local machine to interact with your CodeCommit Repo
  • HTTPS
  • SSH
    • associate public SSH key with developer's IAM user
• Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest