Courses / AWS
52. Canary and Blue/Green Deployments
Canary and blue/green techniques for safe deployments and reducing blast radius.
Infrastructure as Code / AWS (Terraform & CloudFormation context)
Canary and Blue/Green Deployments
Techniques to roll out new application versions safely by routing a subset or separate environment traffic to limit blast radius.
"I want to release a risky change without taking down everyone if it fails."
Blue/green creates a parallel production environment (green) and switches all traffic when ready; canary gradually shifts a small portion of traffic to the new version to test behavior before full rollout.
"I want to release a risky change without taking down everyone if it fails."
Blue/green creates a parallel production environment (green) and switches all traffic when ready; canary gradually shifts a small portion of traffic to the new version to test behavior before full rollout.