Development Roadmap | Automation service for AWS operation : Cloud Automator

Future development schedule

*Please note that the order of release may change accordingly.

Improvement on Group/AWS account management feature

Improve Group management and AWS account settings related feature

Improvement on operability when creating a new group
Improvement on operability of AWS account registration/edit screen

2021 Roadmap

Improvement on job list view (Released in February, 2021)

Improve operability of the job list view

Improvement on screen display speed
Improvement on operability of job detailed search

Addition of delay action for specified time (Released in February, 2021)

At continuous job execution, we added the action to delay subsequent job by specifying the delay time.

Setting this action at operation screen
Setting this action using REST API

2020 Roadmap

Job duplication (Released in August, 2020)

Duplicate job from job list
Check setting differences on job edit screen

Adding new action "WorkSpaces: Reboot WorkSpace"

The new action that can reboot WorkSpaces.

Create job by specifying this action on the screen
Create job by specifying this action at REST API

Slack integration (Released in August, 2020)

Slack Integration setting
Slack Post Process

ELB(ALB/NLB): Register EC2 instances to target group

Setting this option on the operation screen
Setting this option at REST API

EBS backup monitoring feature （Released in January, 2020）

Check EBS volume backup status

Check regular backup status
Confirm the check result on the screen
Notify the check results by email

Specifying continuous execution of multiple jobs (workflow) （Released in January, 2020）

It allows you to specify continuous execution of multiple jobs, such as executing another job after a job execution.

Setting of periodic execution workflow by timer trigger
Verifying the execution log of continuously executed jobs

Inherit EC2 Instance tags with "EC2: Create AMI" action （Released in March, 2020）

The EC2 instance tag will be automatically taken over

Automatically AMI inherits tags from EC2 instance
You can override ineriting tags from EC2 by specifying job configuration

Execution result status check with "EC2: WindowsUpdate" action （Released in March, 2020）

In this action, the status of the execution result can be checked.

Setting this option on the operation screen
Setting this option at REST API

Adding new action "WorkSpaces: Start WorkSpace"

The new action that can start WorkSpaces.

Create job by specifying this action on the screen
Create job by specifying this action at REST API

Adding new trigger that can flexibly specify execution date and time

The new trigger that allows you to flexibly specify job execution date and time has been added, and it flexibly cope with irregular schedules.

Create job by specifying this trigger on the screen
Create job by specifying this trigger at REST API

Adding new action "RDS: Reboot DB Instances"

The new action that can reboot DB Instances.

Create job by specifying this action on the screen
Create job by specifying this action at REST API

2019 Roadmap

*Please note that the order of release may change accordingly.

Aurora Action (Released in January, 2019)

Add Stop/start action for Amazon Aurora

Configure the action in console screen
Configure the action using REST API

SQS trigger improvement (Released in May, 2019)

Made improvement to existing SQS trigger

Execution right after receiving in the que
Simultaneous multiple action execution based on the trigger

Osaka Region partial support (Released in May, 2019)

You can select Osaka region for following actions

Copy AMI across regions
Copy DB Snapshot across regions

On-demand execution function for timer trigger (Released June, 2019)

For timer trigger jobs, we added function to allow user to execute scheduled jobs on-demand.

Execute designated jobs in console screen

Support IAM role in AWS account (Released June, 2019)

By supporting AWS authentication information based on IAM role, it will strengthen the security.

AWS account registration in console screen

Adding an option not to perform generation management when creating AMI (Released August, 2019)

At AMI creation action, it provides a selection option when the generation management is not necessary for created AMI.

Option setting at the screen
Option setting for REST API

Time zone setting (Released Oct, 2019)

Enables to select the time zone

Select the time zone which to be displayed at operation screen
Select the time zone for timer trigger execution date and time

Accept credit card payment (Released Oct, 2019)

Accept credit card payment only for the users from outside of Japan

Ability to add multiple tags to the created image by "Create AMI" action （Released Oct, 2019）

With the "Create AMI" action, multiple tags can be assigned to the AMI image

Multiple tag settings using operation screen
Multiple tag setting using REST API

Command execution status check for "Execute command on EC2 instance" action (Released Dec, 2019)

It enables to check the command execution status by this action

Setting this option using operation screen
Setting this option using REST API

Log data archive feature (Released Dec, 2019)

Enable to download variety of log data at monthly unit basis

Operation job log
Resource operation history
Policy log (Config review)