Amazon ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments
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This article announces that Amazon ECS now supports linear and canary deployment strategies for services using Network Load Balancers (NLB), enabling controlled traffic shifting during application updates.
- NLB-based ECS services can now use linear and canary deployment strategies
- Supports incremental traffic shifting for safer, validated rollouts
- Integrates with CloudWatch alarms for automatic rollback on issues
- Ideal for gaming backends, financial systems, and real-time messaging
- Available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions
- Configurable via AWS Console, CLI, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools
ECS customers can now deploy NLB-based applications with greater confidence through managed, incremental traffic shifting and automated monitoring.
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