#code deploy

Amazon Web Services (AWS) spent years being dismissive of anything that didn’t run in an AWS data centre. Private and hybrid clouds were, we were repeatedly and vehemently told, ‘false clouds.’ There was no value in doing anything cloudy any way but the Amazon way. Non-cloudy workloads were, simply, anachronistic. Left alone, they’d get on with the job of dying soon enough.

But, behind the rhetoric, AWS engineers began to roll out features that smoothed the ramp from other places to the Amazon cloud nirvana. Virtual networks, direct connections, firewalls, IP address ranges and more all began to make it increasingly feasible to see Amazon as almost an extension of your existing data centre investment (or, perhaps, vice versa). 

And, last week, a quiet announcement of a small feature masked a significant additional step.

“Customers who are using CodeDeploy to manage their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances have asked to be able to use the same fleet coordination features to deploy code to their on-premises instances. Today we’re happy to make the functionality of CodeDeploy available for use on a customer’s own servers, in addition to Amazon EC2.”