Amazon ECS Blue/Green Deployments: Benefits, Terminology, and Considerations

Amazon ECS blue/green deployments reduce downtime and risk by validating new service revisions before directing production traffic to them. Benefits include zero downtime deployments, easy rollback, controlled testing, predictable deployment process, and automated validation through lifecycle hooks. Terms include bake time, blue deployment, green deployment, lifecycle stages, lifecycle hook, listener, rule, target group, and traffic shift. Considerations include resource usage, deployment complexity, and service availability requirements.