Github can now deploy directly to Lambda and ECS.

AWS just announced an official Github Action to deploy to Lambda.

Oddly enough it took me a while to find it because it is owned by an account called aws-actions but there is 1 AWS related action for deploying to ECS that is part of GitHub’s default action set and not on their market place.

If you are running on AWS and using GitHub for source control you should check out all the AWS actions the aws-actions account has to offer.

A lot if not all of them could be done with Code Pipeline and Code Build on AWS which is my go to but you never know when you are going to need to shift up your normal stack to meet project requirements.

I could see this being useful if you were considering a multi cloud solution where you have infrastructure on GCP and AWS but then you have to hope Github Actions stay up and working when “it” hits the fan.

Are there any Github Actions you have found useful? Let me know!