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How We reduced Deployment Time in Half Using ECS Blue/Green Deployment

In this article, I detail how our DevOps team reduced deployment time by 50% using ECS Blue/Green Deployment with AWS CodeDeploy. By replacing rolling updates with parallel environments and shifting traffic only after successful health checks, we enabled zero-downtime releases, faster rollouts, safer rollbacks, and improved CI/CD efficiency.

    Posted byBharath Reddy|on Apr 29th 2025|5 min read

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We significantly improved our deployment process by adopting ECS Blue/Green Deployment using AWS CodeDeploy, which allowed us to reduce deployment time by more than 50%. Previously, our team relied on rolling updates for ECS services, which often led to slower rollouts, brief downtimes, and minimal rollback control. By implementing the Blue/Green strategy, we deployed new versions to a separate (green) environment while keeping the current (blue) environment live. Traffic was only shifted to green after successful health checks, ensuring zero downtime and a much safer release process. This also enabled automatic rollbacks in case of failure, enhanced visibility into deployment health via CloudWatch metrics, and improved confidence across the team. As a result, our typical deployment time dropped from 20 minutes to under 10, while also improving stability, traceability, and developer productivity. Overall, Blue/Green deployment became a key pillar of our CI/CD strategy, helping us ship faster with fewer risks.

About the Author

Bharath Reddy
Bharath Reddy

As a DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience, I specialize in multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security. My expertise lies in automating infrastructure, optimizing system performance, and implementing robust DevSecOps practices.

Expertise

Azure 6+ yrs
Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) 6+ yrs
Docker 6+ yrs
Terraform 6+ yrs
Ansible 6+ yrs
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