Amazon helps automate software upgrades in Europe and Australia

From PC World: Amazon Web Services has expanded to data centers in Australia and Europe the availability of its CodeDeploy service for automating software updates.

The service is being promoted as a way to do away with what Amazon calls error-prone manual operations, when rolling out new features and applications on its cloud or enterprise data centers. There are also features for performing rolling updates and tracking application health. If something goes wrong, deployments can be stopped and rolled back.

The expanded availability to the Ireland and Sydney data centers of AWS should improve performance and will likely win over companies that want to run their entire infrastructure locally. CodeDeploy has until now only been available from the U.S.

As with any type of automation, CodeDeploy doesn’t work straight out of the box. To use the service, administrators have to specify the files to copy and the scripts to run on each instance during the installation.

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