Which service helps you set up your application development in the cloud and manage development from a centralized dashboard?

• A. AWS CodeArtifact
• B. AWS CodeStar
• C. AWS CodeBuild
• D. AWS X-Ray

Answer: (B)

A service that provides a single, centralized console to set up and manage your application development in the cloud is AWS CodeStar. It offers a unified project dashboard where you can manage source code, builds, deployments, and collaboration in one place. With CodeStar, you can bootstrap projects using pre-configured templates for different languages and frameworks, and it ties together other AWS DevOps services like CodeCommit (or GitHub), CodeBuild, and CodePipeline to create end-to-end CI/CD pipelines. It also handles project permissions and integrates issue tracking, making it easier for teams to develop, test, and deploy from a single view.

CodeArtifact focuses on storing and managing software package dependencies, not a development management dashboard; CodeBuild executes builds but doesn’t provide a centralized development management UI; X-Ray is for tracing and diagnosing application performance, not for managing development workflows.