Choosing between Amazon ECS Blue/Green Native or AWS CodeDeploy in AWS CDK

2026-02-25

Amazon Elastic Container Service now offers native blue-green deployments, enabling zero-downtime releases with built-in lifecycle hooks, bake time, and rollback without requiring AWS CodeDeploy. While CodeDeploy still supports canary and linear traffic shifting and CodePipeline integration, ECS native is the recommended default for simpler, service-centric deployments in CDK.