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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.

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.

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

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