Docker Application Deployment on AWS
Your containers running on AWS with secrets out of the environment and logs off the disk.
From $459 2–5 days
AWS CI/CD Pipeline Setup
A pipeline that deploys on green — and that can put yesterday back without rebuilding it.
Price and scope
From $459
Typically $459–$1,099, fixed in writing before anything starts.
What moves it up
- More than one environment, where staging has to be a real gate rather than a copy
- Database migrations inside the deploy, which is where rollback stops being simple
- A monorepo, or several services that have to deploy in an order
What actually goes wrong
The pipeline that gets built first is a deploy button, and a deploy button is only half a pipeline. Tests pass, the artifact ships, everyone is pleased — and then something is wrong in production and the plan for undoing it is to push a revert and wait for the whole pipeline to run again, which takes as long as a deploy and quietly assumes the previous commit still builds today. Underneath that sit the deploy credentials: a long-lived access key in the CI provider's secrets, usually with far more permission than deploying actually needs, and no expiry on it at all.
How I find it
aws iam list-access-keys --user-name <ci-user> — and the CreateDate on each oneThe pipeline definition read for what happens on failure, which is usually nothingThe time from "decide to roll back" to "old version serving", measured rather than estimatedaws deploy get-deployment-group / aws ecs describe-services, for whether a rollback path exists at all
What you get
- Build, test and deploy as code, running from a clean checkout with no step done by hand
- OIDC federation instead of a long-lived access key, scoped to what the deploy actually touches
- A rollback that redeploys the previous artifact rather than rebuilding the previous commit
- Migrations separated from deploys, so a schema change and a code change can fail independently
- The rollback performed once, timed, before you need it
Questions
How fast can I actually roll back?
If the previous artifact is still stored, under a minute — you are pointing at something that already exists. If rollback means rebuilding the previous commit, it is a full pipeline run and depends on whether that commit still compiles against today's dependencies. The first is what this builds.
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or CodePipeline?
Whichever your code already lives beside, in almost every case. The value here is in what the pipeline does and what it can undo, not in which vendor runs it, and moving your CI provider as part of this is usually cost with no benefit attached.
What about database migrations?
They come out of the deploy step and run as their own gated stage, because a schema change is the one part of a release that a code rollback cannot reverse. Expand-and-contract where the change allows it, so the old version keeps working against the new schema during the window.
Do I need a staging environment for this?
You need one if you want the pipeline to catch anything. A staging environment that is a different size, a different configuration and holds different data is not a gate, it is a delay — so if what you have is that, I will say so rather than wiring a pipeline through it.
If this is not quite it
Amazon ECS / Fargate Deployment
Containers that deploy without downtime, and that stop deploying when the new version is broken.
From $649 3–7 days
Want this done?
Tell me what you are running and I will come back with a fixed price and a date. If it turns out you do not need this, I will say that instead.
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