June 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments: Delivered core infrastructure updates, security improvements, and enhanced observability across the environment. Key configurations and capacity updates were applied to optimize resource usage and regional readiness. NAT gateway routing and cross-AZ firewall/Internet Gateway integration were implemented to improve security posture and egress control, with AZ-specific deployment patterns. Significant firewall and networking fixes were completed to increase reliability, including endpoint_id path corrections, route-table conflict resolution, and duplication prevention. Observability was strengthened through CloudWatch logging integration and robust log configuration changes, enabling faster troubleshooting and tighter incident response. Testing and QA coverage was expanded with LinOTP portals, OneDrive integration tests, and firewall endpoint testing scaffolding, reducing risk of regressions. Demonstrated capabilities include AWS networking, Terraform/module-driven infrastructure, security policy enforcement, and end-to-end deployment reliability improvements.

April 2026 (2026-04) monthly summary of platform and environment modernization efforts across two repositories. Delivered key features enhancing environment configuration, alignment of OAS across development and pre-production, and improved secure access and testing capabilities. Implemented storage capacity upgrades and config fixes to support larger workloads and more reliable deployments. Strengthened security posture with Bastion access updates and Bastion-to-RDS connectivity fixes. Enabled robust testing with a dedicated S3 bucket, IAM roles/policies, and EC2 access controls. The work reduces environment drift, accelerates provisioning, and improves reliability for production workloads.

March 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments: Delivered Kali Linux EC2 preproduction infrastructure as code using modular Terraform. Implemented SSH key management, AWS Secrets Manager integration, and SSM agent user-data configuration to enable secure and automated preproduction deployments. Fixed access and key-reference issues, and refactored the Terraform code into a modular structure for maintainability and repeatability. These changes improve security, reduce manual steps, and accelerate issue detection in preproduction environments.

February 2026: Completed infrastructure modernization for the preproduction EDQ pod by removing EC2-based components and migrating to a non-EC2 architecture. This included removing Terraform EC2 resources, cleaning up application_variables.json, deleting bastion.tf, and stripping CloudWatch configurations. These changes reduce infrastructure complexity, lower ongoing maintenance, and improve security posture. Key commits reference the work: c75d731bd15e0ddac9217b8d7b87ff04c6ba0d3a and dc69b91cf238d0b3448b52d1b1bbdc1102caf607.

January 2026 monthly summary: Delivered a Terraform-based AWS EC2 deployment in London, integrated with a new VPC and security group in ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. The work included formatting and refactoring of Terraform configurations to improve readability and maintainability. This enables repeatable, region-specific infrastructure provisioning with standardized security controls, accelerating onboarding of new environments and reducing manual provisioning effort. Commits across six changes (hashes: 0ff1d5c622ae8066a5912ab2dd66013685f9d090, e6e2f0ec885fc3193578c9704947c925851ec7ff, a3a5923a8790937fb25074807042473699fc8808, 36c244111ab1c185dfe404a8ffe8758830e34a48, 37a7671f3c7fbdc5f5e9f71ff993b49ba8ecb81a, dc5b9cdb4c7ce7fccf8ecae409f4958fc64734e1).