[bashtoni]

Yep, this is Amazon reaching out to those who won't/can't take the 'immutable infrastructure' approach.

It's fair to say if you're already doing things in the way you describe, this service isn't for you.

[ermintrude]

Baking everything into AMIs is the "right" way to go, but if AWS had a supported, hosted git server inside their network to push into, I'd rather have the speed of deploying from git, and only bake AMIs when necessary for system upgrades.

[ermintrude]

...and it looks like one's in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/