By adding AWS Service Catalog to its CI/CD platform, 3M HIS reduced bottlenecks, strengthened compliance with its governance and control requirements, and took a big step toward fully automated pipeline provisioning. "The biggest benefit is how much time we are saving," says Martin. "By using AWS Service Catalog, I can have a new pipeline ready in 10 minutes, instead of needing days to build it manually. That means less startup time for new apps and much faster feedback loops with customers once the applications are deployed."

3M HIS is also benefiting from the consistency it can now impose across its pipelines and development cycles. "Because we've preapproved the AWS CloudFormation templates that AWS Service Catalog is launching, we know everyone will be working inside the right guardrails," says Martin. "AWS CloudFormation templates also help us avoid manual configuration errors that would need a lot of debugging work later."

Martin says it’s clear AWS Service Catalog plays a key role in enabling successful shifts to a DevOps culture. "It's hard to overstate how relevant AWS Service Catalog is to our agile methodologies and CI/CD processes," says Martin. "Especially for complex, global organizations like ours, AWS Service Catalog with AWS CloudFormation templates can flatten the DevOps learning curve and make it much easier to provide product teams with self-service automation."