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Amazon ECS Adds Early Success Criteria for Rolling Service Deployments

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Early Success Criteria for rolling service deployments, allowing users to define deployment success based on a configurable percentage of healthy tasks. This new capability helps complete deployments sooner, unblocking subsequent CI/CD pipelines and dependent operations. It provides more control over rollback monitoring and offers options for source service revision cleanup (BLOCKING or DEFERRED). The feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

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  • Define early success criteria for ECS rolling deployments

    Amazon ECS now allows configuring a 'healthy percent' for rolling service deployments, marking a deployment successful once a defined proportion of desired tasks are running and healthy. This accelerates deployment completion and unblocks dependent CI/CD processes. Users can also choose between BLOCKING or DEFERRED modes for source revision cleanup, controlling whether cleanup occurs before or after success declaration.

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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-ecs-deployments-early-success/

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