AWS CodeDeploy Agent has improved compatibility for Amazon Linux 2, Windows and Ubuntu

Posted on: Aug 4, 2020

The AWS CodeDeploy Agent now has improved memory efficiency for Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), Ubuntu, and RHEL7 and added support for Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04. Additionally, stability issues on Windows Server 2019 related to Disk Cleanup have been fixed. With this release AWS CodeDeploy has included AL2 and Windows Server 2019 as officially supported operating systems, making it easier to update AL2 and Windows Server 2019 applications hosted on Amazon EC2 and on-premises instances.

AWS CodeDeploy is a deployment service that automates your application updates to a variety of compute services, such as serverless AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The CodeDeploy agent is software used to facilitate deploying to servers such as Amazon EC2, on-premises instances, and other virtual machines.

For more details about this release, visit the CodeDeploy agent version history. For availability in your regions, visit AWS global region table

To enable automatic updates for the AWS CodeDeploy agent, visit the user guide.