This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for AWS CodeDeploy. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/. AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications. This guide explains the primary resources of AWS CodeDeploy and the steps necessary to automate the deployment of your code to one or more instances using the AWS console or AWS CLI.