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Gradual deployments in Amazon ECS with linear and canary strategies
Amazon ECS now supports linear and canary deployment strategies using weighted target groups, CloudWatch alarms, and deployment circuit breakers to enable gradual traffic shifting with automated rollback on failures. Linear deployments shift traffic in fixed increments with bake times, while canary deployments test small traffic slices first, improving deployment safety, observability, and control across microservices.
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