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# What is CodeDeploy?

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## Primary components

* **Note**\
  Amazon ECS blue/green deployments are supported through both CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. Details for these deployments are described in subsequent sections.
* **Note**\
  Amazon ECS blue/green deployments are supported using both CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. Details for these deployments are described in subsequent sections.

## Application specification files

* **Note**\
  The CodeDeploy agent is not used in an AWS Lambda or an Amazon ECS deployment.