What's new at AWS 📢
🔯 With this feature customer can utilize this time to conduct necessary validation or testing.
🔯 To ensure the successful deployment of new EC2 instances to Auto Scaling group before an instance refresh is marked successful.
🔯 Importantly, with an instance refresh, customer can update EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups either all at once or incrementally using instance refresh checkpoints.
🔯 These checkpoints enable to validate the health of replaced instances at different stages.
🔯 Overall, this new feature helps to monitor the following:
✅ Health of all updated instances
✅ Address any last-minute issues
✅ Ensure a successful deployment.
🔯 Addition to that, during this period, you can also take advantage of manual or automatic rollbacks as needed to revert any changes.
🔯 When to use an instance refresh:
✅ Deploying a new AMIor new user data script across ASG
✅ Migrating EC2 instances to new instance types for optimization.
✅ Switching ASG configuration from launch configuration to a launch template.
📌 Checkout for EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/instance-refresh-overview.html
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