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Automating CloudFront Continuous Deployment with a CI/CD Pipeline

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This article discusses how to automate the deployment of Amazon CloudFront distributions using a CI/CD pipeline with AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeCommit. It covers the newly introduced CloudFront continuous deployment feature which allows testing configuration changes on a percentage of traffic before promoting to production.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Solution overview and prerequisites
  • Step-by-step guide to deploy the CI/CD pipeline for CloudFront continuous deployment
  • Configuring the staging CloudFront distribution with a continuous deployment policy
  • Connecting the staging distribution to the existing production distribution
  • Testing and promoting changes from staging to production through manual approval in CodePipeline
  • Cleaning up the resources after testing


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