You are a DevOps engineer. One development team needs to develop a proof-of-concept feature in AWS as quickly as possible. Several team members need to manage, contribute, or view the project during the time. They already have their own IAM user accounts. Other than that, it will be better if the project has a dashboard that provides an overall view of the project, such as build, test and deploy. The team lead has consulted you on the methods that the team should use. Which AWS service should you suggest?

Answer options:

A.AWS CloudFormation
B.AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C.AWS CodeStar
D.AWS CodePipeline

Correct Answer – C
The AWS CodeStar project integrates other AWS services for the project development. Depending on the AWS CodeStar project template used, the toolchain might include source control, build, deployment, etc. Check https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codestar/latest/userguide/welcome.html on the features that AWS CodeStar provides.
Option A is incorrect: Because CloudFormation is not able to manage team members as CodeStar. In CodeStar, it contains a central console where you can assign team members the roles they need to access tools and resources. The roles include Owner, Contributor and Viewer.
Option B is incorrect: Although AWS Elastic Beanstalk can help deploy an application quickly, it does not have features to view each stage for the whole project in a dashboard, such as the build stage.
Option C is CORRECT: Because CodeStar can meet the needs as above explanations.
Option D is incorrect: Although AWS CodePipeline can configure the source management, build and deploy, it does not have team member management either. CodeStar is more suitable than CodePipeline in this case.