That's what it was. VM with a barebones deployment system that had a ton of hooks in it.
Really really smart idea that IMO helped Amazon in the 2010s immensely. While everyone else was figuring out k8s and whatnot, Amazon had a good system with CI in place for years.
I wonder how it's fared over time. Amazon was never known for internal tooling in many other places. I hope Apollo is still running strong today.
There's been a company wide effort to move everything to Native AWS. While many existing services still run on Apollo, virtually all new services are created on ECS, EC2 or Lambda.
Really really smart idea that IMO helped Amazon in the 2010s immensely. While everyone else was figuring out k8s and whatnot, Amazon had a good system with CI in place for years.
I wonder how it's fared over time. Amazon was never known for internal tooling in many other places. I hope Apollo is still running strong today.