March 2026 performance and reliability enhancements across the Modernisation Platform environments. Delivered a comprehensive ACM certificate management overhaul for the Performance Hub, stabilized load balancer configuration, and enabled DNS-based certificate validation to strengthen security and compliance. Also deprecated legacy certificates.tf, cleaned up Terraform documentation, and established clearer per-environment certificate IDs to improve maintainability and deployment reliability.

February 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/analytical-platform focusing on documentation-driven improvements to ingestion. Delivered a second ingestion diagram and expanded narrative around ingestion services to enhance clarity for both users and developers. This work strengthens platform governance, accelerates onboarding, and improves maintainability without introducing code changes beyond documentation updates.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-11 focusing on key features delivered, major fixes, overall impact and technical achievements. Highlights include secure Teams webhook integration using AWS Secrets Manager, infrastructure upgrade of Bastion module, analytical platform architecture and ingestion documentation enhancements, and a documented Excalidraw limitation in development containers. No major defects reported; the work delivered strengthens secure communications, platform governance, and developer productivity.

June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments: Key features delivered include upgrading the ECS Windows AMI to Windows Server 2022 and clarifying the process to force a new AMI via instance termination to refresh autoscale launch templates. A bug in Initialize-ECSAgent PowerShell user-data formatting (en dash) was fixed to ensure reliable script execution. These changes improve platform security, reliability during scaling, and provide clearer operational guidance. Technologies demonstrated include AWS ECS, AMI lifecycle management, EC2 autoscaling, and PowerShell scripting in user-data contexts.

May 2025 monthly summary for the developer team focusing on delivering observable, reliable platform improvements and incident readiness across two repositories.

Month: 2025-03 — In ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments, delivered two infrastructure enhancements via Terraform to centralize AWS account IDs for the Analytical Platform and updated SSL certificate ARNs for the 2025/26 renewal cycle. These changes reduce cross-account drift, improve maintainability, and ensure renewal readiness. No critical bugs were reported this month; only maintenance and hardening work that strengthens security posture and operational resilience.