Developers looking for better ways to integrate with and deploy on Amazon Web Services have a new set of tools coming their way.
Andy Jassy, the Senior Vice President of AWS, announced a trio of new products today that take the company’s internal development tools and open them up to a broader audience. The first of those is Apollo, the company’s internal deployment system, which currently executes around 95 deployments a minute on Amazon’s services.
“When people leave the company, one of the things they say they miss the most is Apollo,” Jassy said.
To help those people and other developers working on AWS, the company launched AWS CodeDeploy, essentially the public version of Apollo. It’s fully managed, high-scale deployment service. Developers can set up rolling deployments that gradually push out changes to groups of instances.
As that happens, the system automatically monitors the status of the updated instances, and can stop the deployment if something goes wrong. After that, developers can easily revert the deployment, if they want to undo something they just did.
Here’s a video that shows how it works:
In addition to CodeDeploy, which is available today, Amazon will also be launching a pair of services in early 2015 that help with the development workflow. The first of those is CodePipeline, a delivery and release automation service designed to help developers to get code out the door. The service automates build and test workflows, and can integrate code repositories from a variety of locations.
AWS CodeCommit is the third part of Amazon’s developer service tripod, and offers a managed code repository on AWS driven by Git. The service allows companies to closely locate code to environments they want to deploy to, and Jassy said it should help accelerate a build and deployment cycle.
