When deploying applications to production, the method you use to replace the old code with the new code dictates your risk level. Historically, deployments meant overwriting the live server. Today, modern architectures use load balancers to shift traffic dynamically, drastically reducing the blast radius of a bad release. Here is an in-depth look at how these deployment strategies work, complete with architectural flows, followed by a manual, CLI-driven hands-on guide to deploying a FastAPI container from Amazon ECR to ECS using AWS CodeDeploy. The Danger of "In-Place" Deployments Deploying without traffic shifting is known as an In-Place Deployment . In practice, this means your server stops serving the current version (Version 1) and replaces it with the new version (Version 2) on the same machine or instance. There is no buffer, no parallel environment, just a direct swap. The Risk: During the replacement, your server is either down or running in a partially updated state.…