CNS321: Building Resilient Deployment Pipelines with Amazon ECS

Resources for CNS321: Building resilient deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS

When running containerized applications on Amazon ECS, operations teams need to ensure that new software releases are rolled out safely, with the ability to try out new releases, and to quickly rollback to a previous known stable state. Join this workshop to gain hands on experience with Amazon ECS deployment strategies, diving deep into the different approaches, and learning how they can be automated as part of a CI/CD pipeline. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Amazon ECS blue/green deployment patterns

Code samples

Collection of code samples, including some lifecycle hook examples.

Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS

Blog

Launch blog post for ECS blue/green deployments

Announcing Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker

Blog

Launch announcement for ECS deployment circuit breaker

Extending deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS blue/green deployments and lifecycle hooks

Blog

Guidance on using lifecycle hooks to perform validation as part of ECS deployment workflows.

Migrating from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue/green deployments

Blog

Guidance on options for migrating from CodeDeploy to native ECS blue/green deployments.

Building resilient deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS

Workshop

Workshop content from re:Invent 2025 - CNS321: Building resilient deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS

Presented by:

Mike Rizzo

Mike Rizzo

Mike Rizzo is an AWS Principal Solutions Architect based in London, UK. He has a keen interest in serverless architectures and machine learning. In his spare time, he enjoys running and cycling around the Suffolk countryside, cooking Maltese food, and playing Fortnite!

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Islam Mahgoub

Islam Mahgoub

Islam Mahgoub is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with 15+ years of experience in application, integration, and technology architecture. At AWS, he helps customers build new cloud native solutions and modernise their legacy applications leveraging AWS services. Outside of work, Islam enjoys walking, watching movies, and listening to music.

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