AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy API automates application deployment to EC2/Lambda/ECS — rolling, blue-green, and automated rollback.
Native integration with AWS compute services (EC2, Lambda, ECS)
AWS-only (cannot deploy to other clouds)
CreateApplication + CreateDeploymentGroup to set up deployment targets. CreateDeployment to trigger a deployment (specify revision bundle on S3).
Uptime · 30-day window
GitHub activity
About this API
CodeDeploy is AWS's application deployment automation tool, forming AWS's CI/CD suite alongside CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline. Design: separate deployment logic from build logic — CodeBuild produces a revision bundle on S3; CodeDeploy safely pushes that bundle to target instances. EC2 deployments support rolling (update a portion at a time) and blue-green (launch a new fleet, switch traffic over); Lambda supports canary (10% traffic to new version first, observe, then full switch); ECS supports task-definition-level blue-green. Auto-rollback on failure; combined with CloudWatch alarms, supports business-metric-based rollback (e.g. error rate > 1% triggers rollback). Standard for serious deployment automation on AWS.
What you can build
- 1Auto rolling deploy to EC2 cluster after CI passes
- 2Blue-green deployment for Lambda functions
- 3Zero-downtime ECS service updates
- 4Automatic rollback on failure
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Native integration with AWS compute services (EC2, Lambda, ECS)
- Multiple deployment strategies (rolling, blue-green, canary)
- Failure detection and auto-rollback
Limitations
- AWS-only (cannot deploy to other clouds)
- Complex dependency management (multi-service coordinated release) needs external tools
Example request
curl https://github.com/mermade/aws2openapi/<endpoint>Getting started
CreateApplication + CreateDeploymentGroup to set up deployment targets. CreateDeployment to trigger a deployment (specify revision bundle on S3).
FAQ
CodeDeploy vs. GitHub Actions deploy?+
GitHub Actions is flexible but you manage IAM and deployment logic yourself. CodeDeploy encapsulates AWS deployment complexity (auto rollback, blue-green switching).
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, go, java, csharp
- Response time
- 19 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:36:33 AM
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