• AWS managed private remote Git repository
• No repo size limit
• Code, application and infrastructure within AWS Cloud ⇒ increased security
• Enable repository level notifications on an SNS topic
• GitHub is far better

Security

• Authentication using SSH keys (key file) or HTTPS (enter username and password manually)
• Authorization using IAM
• Repos are encrypted by default (at rest using KMS keys and in flight using HTTPS or SSH)
• For cross-account access, create an IAM Role and use STS AssumeRole API to get access to CodeCommit Repo

Misc

• IAM supports CodeCommit with three types of credentials:
  • Git credentials: an IAM-generated username and password pair you can use to communicate with CodeCommit repositories over HTTPS
  • SSH keys: a locally generated public-private key pair that you can associate with your IAM user to communicate with CodeCommit repositories over SSH
  • AWS access keys: which you can use with the Git Credential Helper included with the AWS CLI to communicate with CodeCommit repositories over HTTPS
• cURL cannot be used to work with the CodeCommit API (must use AWS SDK)
• Recommended to generate Git credentials in the IAM console to access repos in CodeCommit